Claves de futuro en la atención y apoyo a las personas con discapacidad intelectual y del desarrollo: ¿Qué nos dice la ciencia?

This article describes the contributions of a round table whose main pur-pose was to respond, by three experts, a series of topics, with the look anytime in the next ten years, such as: the evolution of the concepts of intelligence and adaptive beha-vior; the diagnostic evaluation of disability; the quality of life as a source of information to evaluate the policies, as well as the practices of the services; the conditions that must have a service to make it really a service focused on the person; services based in the community; the needs of supporting families; the role of the parents; either the own participation of persons with disabilities in the development of services.The discussion was organized on the basis of three large blocks of content: diagnos-tic elements, constructs in the field of intellectual disabilities, and provision of support.This article ends with a Decalogue of conclusions based on the arguments of the parties.