Topic guide
Learning, literacy, rights,
analogy, and AI
These topics connect research and educational practice with the everyday lives, choices, and participation of people with intellectual disabilities.
Learning and growth
We examine the conditions that help learning continue into adult life, everyday decisions, and participation for people with intellectual disabilities.
- How Nalkku designs lifelong learning for adults with intellectual disabilities Nalkku's monthly paper-based program connects literacy, analogy, self-expression, and transfer into everyday life for adults with intellectual disabilities.
- How AI can support learning for people with intellectual disabilities Practical ways AI can assist with personalized materials, repeated practice, expression, and accessibility—while human review and responsibility remain essential.
- Why analogy learning matters for people with intellectual disabilities What analogy learning means, why transfer into everyday life matters, and how educators can design comparison, expression, and practice with appropriate support.
The right to learn
We look beyond access to education to understandable materials, meaningful practice, and the support needed for self-determination.
- How Nalkku designs lifelong learning for adults with intellectual disabilities Nalkku's monthly paper-based program connects literacy, analogy, self-expression, and transfer into everyday life for adults with intellectual disabilities.
- AI must benefit people with intellectual disabilities Nalja Books' declaration that AI should expand understanding, choice, and participation for people with intellectual disabilities, together with five principles for responsible design.
AI and intellectual disability
We set out principles for using AI to expand understanding, choice, and expression rather than automate decisions about people's lives.
- How AI can support learning for people with intellectual disabilities Practical ways AI can assist with personalized materials, repeated practice, expression, and accessibility—while human review and responsibility remain essential.
- At the Edge of Intelligence, We Find What It Means to Be Human. In the Age of AGI, What My Son Will Teach Humanity
- AI must benefit people with intellectual disabilities Nalja Books' declaration that AI should expand understanding, choice, and participation for people with intellectual disabilities, together with five principles for responsible design.
Literacy and understanding
Literacy is treated as making meaning, connecting information with experience, and using it in choices and action—not only decoding words.
Analogy and transfer
We explore how learners can recognize a relationship in one situation and carry it into another, so learning does not stop on the page.
- Why analogy learning matters for people with intellectual disabilities What analogy learning means, why transfer into everyday life matters, and how educators can design comparison, expression, and practice with appropriate support.
Easy information and comprehension
We distinguish making information easier to access from supporting people to understand and use its meaning in their own lives.
How Nalkku puts these ideas into practice
Nalkku connects analogy questions, reading and writing, personal reflection, routines, and AI-supported feedback so that learning can carry into life.
- How Nalkku designs lifelong learning for adults with intellectual disabilities Nalkku's monthly paper-based program connects literacy, analogy, self-expression, and transfer into everyday life for adults with intellectual disabilities.