Stenciling

Painting with surface effects

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 surface appearance.

Tools

The anticipation of the effects on surface appearances influences modifications in tool selections and the form of grasp used before they start working.

Small Spaces

As appearances change, more modifications may be made in smaller spaces. Surfaces in hard to get to places often receive their concentrated attention. For example, corners and joints will be cleaned, sanded, stained or painted.

Preventing Damage

Preventing potential surface appearance problems such as contaminants, wrinkles, bubbles and scratches now captures their attention.

Wet floors are a fall hazard that can be graded according to the materials used in the floor construction, drains, and bath mats.

Within ACL 5.6, the person usually anticipates a fall hazard independently. In a new setting, a verbal warning is usually understood and followed. The realistic goal is a demonstration of the safety precautions to be followed in a facility during the person's orientation to the facility.

Inhibition is a mental process that takes a minute to understand. What might happen is not present in reality. So, the person probably creates a mental image of the change in the material object. The interesting thing about ACL 5.6 is that the material objects must be present. Without them, nothing happens.

The process is even more complicated because the person inhibits the secondary effect. The primary effect is the person's intended cause and effect connection. The secondary effect is a consequence of the primary effect.

For most people, an awareness of their own cognitive disability enters the scale within ACL 5.6.

Metacognition is the term that psychologists often use for this phenomenon.

The legal system and the general public tend to assume that people can give a reliable report about their behavior between ACL 4.0 and 5.8 because they can talk. With a cognitive disability, self-reports rarely match the objective observations of other people.

Functioning within ACL 5.6, 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.

Their efforts to form a sense of kinship are much appreciated, but their ego-centrism is just below the surface. The person may seem to be difficult because they are unable to see things from another person's point of view. Family and friends are going to have to be understanding.

With an adolescent onset, the stories the person tells are usually about themselves, and usually only include their own point of view. Their stories do include evidence of bonds with extended family members, spouses and children. The portrayal of themselves is often either as a passive recipient of the actions of other or as being wholly autonomous. Descriptions of themselves are often as a victim in complex plots in real life situations.

Written and verbal instructions for novel situations now makes sense for the person. They can follow written instructions with ease now. They can also accept instructions which are in the form of a hint. Warnings and precautions related to surface appearances are heeded.