text: There is no person on this earth that cannot learn.  If you have a student with cognitive disabilities, you have to choose what is most appropriate to teach them, life skills.  You would not teach a child who will never fully comprehend text to read a book, but to recognize those words/phrases/signs that will enable them to live their lives. An example would be a bus schedule or sign that says poison. You give them the opportunity to be part of a community by helping them go to the public pool to swim or go bowling with a group.