Dynamic skill theory , a major focus of this work, puts together the parts of a person that researchers often separate. The goals of the work in the DDL are to provide a theoretical framework that moves beyond the one-dimensional views that dominate behavioral science and thus to help people flourish in many different ways. There is nothing more practical and powerful than a good theory. Dynamic skill theory captures and analyzes the many different pathways that people naturally take in learning and development of concepts, emotions, social skills, and brain functioning. The skill framework helps people to see themselves and others in their complexity and variation and so helps people reach their richly textured, interesting capacities.
Research includes the full age range from early infancy to middle adulthood.
Also, the work is intensively collaborative, because one person alone can not capture the richness and diversity of human development and learning.