Creativity as a cognitive measure in young people with intellectual disabilities

Attention to diversity and inclusive education must be able to take on the same challenges of the 21st century, which involves incorporating the development of skills into the teaching-learning process that allows them to adapt to changes. Currently, creativity is considered as part of the development of divergent thinking and problem solving, areas of special difficulty for people with intellectual disabilities. For this reason, the research objective is to evaluate, young people with intellectual disabilities, their creative capacity as a cognitive measure, through the CREA standardized test. For this, 91 participants, aged between 11 years 11 months and 28 years of chronological age, have participated in the study. The participants had a percentile of 34.62 in the scale from 6 to 11 years. The total score is next to 20.11 in the scale from 12 to 16 years. The data invite us to reinforce, within educational praxis, the cognitive processes associated with creativity, such as decision-making and problem solving from pre-university ages as fundamental steps to improve creativity as a cognitive measure.