Self Reliance of Utah

Self Reliance of Utah provides support to adults with mild to moderate cognitive disabilities. We work individually with clients to develop a variety of life skills; community awareness, independent living, financial understanding, employment and a social network which will allow them to grow in confidence and become self reliant.

The concept of cognitive disabilities is extremely broad, and not always well-defined. In loose terms, a person with a cognitive disability has greater difficulty with one or more types of mental tasks than the average person. There are at least two ways to classify cognitive disabilities: by functional disability or by clinical disability. Clinical diagnoses of cognitive disabilities include autism, Down Syndrome, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and even dementia. Less severe cognitive conditions include attention deficit disorder (ADD), dyslexia (difficulty reading), dyscalculia (difficulty with math), and learning disabilities in general. Clinical diagnoses may be useful from a medical perspective for treatment, but classifying cognitive disabilities by functional disability is more useful for teaching someone new skills. Functional disabilities ignore the medical or behavioral causes of the disability and instead focus on the resulting abilities and challenges.
(http://www.webaim.org/articles/cognitive/)