Attention is captured by the person's ability to store information in their short-term memory which lasts for around 30 seconds. Patterns such as a diagonal line pattern in a series of squares are paid attention to. They do not need to refer to the sample as often as they can refer to the information stored within their memory.

Being able to store an image for more than a few seconds results in the ability to perceive visual patterns. True learning as opposed to rote learning may occur.

The recognition of visual order in the material world changes the person's manual actions from the jerky uncertainty about what to do next (ACL 4.8) to an even flow from one action to the next (ACL 5.0).

For decades, we have watched people fiddle around with the single cordovan stitch in the ACLS. Some people keep trying until they get a stitch by chance, but they cannot repeat it. Give them enough time and there are people who will get a second stitch by chance. The third stitch was added because it takes too long to discover it a third time by chance. The odd thing that struck us was that they often recognized the correct stitch when it appeared, but they could not repeat it. The image of the correct stitch was retained in memory, but the process of producing it was not.

Improvement is observed in the quality of the effects produced, but the same action must be repeated enough times to provide the opportunity to display improvement. The primary effect happens first and immediately. The effect is perceivable in the visual pattern that captures the person's attention.

Crepe paper roses

Fall / autumn leaf wreath

Affirmative activities are activities that keep the person happily occupied. Allow the person to use their mental abilities builds a positive sense of who they are. Within ACL 5.8, the person enjoys doing activities that involve the use of secondary consequences of spatial fit.

Secondary Effects

The set of some plastic adhesives is a consistency of materials that is not perceivable. The instructions typically include waiting a period of time. Not waiting produces a secondary effect. The primary effect is holding the pieces together. Anticipating secondary effects enters the scale within ACL 5.8. Independently following the instructions to wait for the adhesive to set will probably occur.

Past ability to function in ACL 6 may result in the person being able to remember abstract concepts but this may not be the case when a cognitive disability is recent. Self-reports may be unreliable and misleading.

Functioning within ACL 5.8, the person can work in an open employment situation as long as they do not need to be in a supervisory relationship. Their inability to imagine a complex or different point of view easily disintegrates into bullying and blaming other people.

Sticking to rules and directives without considering the overall intent of the instruction is common when someone cannot use abstract concepts. Explaining the overall intent may have limited compliance whereas telling them a new directive has been set will have a more effective result.