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908 The compensation age theory: Development of cognitive, emotional and behavioral abilities for promoting quality of life of adults with intellectual disability Chen Irit, Bustan Noa, Tal Dalia and Hefziba Batya Lifshitz Abstract The advances in science and medicine that led to an increase in the life expectancy of the general population, as well as the life expectancy of the population with intellectual disability (ID). Nowadays, people with ID, with and without Down syndrome, reach the age of 70 to 80 in good health and without a functional decline. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006; 2012) calls for exhaustion of rights, for equality and for development of the cognitive and emotional potential of people with disabilities, over the course of their life cycle. In many countries, adults with ID still struggle in order to obtain basic rights related to housing, employment and higher education (European Union, 2017; Smith, 2019). One of the reasons for this is the prevalent perception according to which people with ID will never grow up cognitively and emotionally and are unable to benefit significantly from learning during their adulthood. Chapter on page 801

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