Effective actions or activities arouse and sustain the attention of the cognitively disabled person, make good sense to the person and are accepted as positive by other people.
The ability to produce activities which the person chooses to participate in takes skills and creativity. This skill is appreciated by the person and their caregivers because when the person is happily occupied they are not causing problems. The person with a cognitive disability does not perceive the negative consequences and the hurt feelings of other people.
What makes sense to the person with a cognitive disability is determined by the quality of sensorimotor information that arouses their attention (the ACL score). Actions and activities make positive or negative sense to the person doing them.
Being happily occupied with what they are doing are simple, ancient, and worthy results of good practice. Sessions need to be scheduled at least three times a day because everyone needs something to do between meals and after the evening meal. After the evening meal, most people chose to do a relaxing activity. Relaxing activities have lower task demands than the person's ACL score.