Deficient names like "mentally handicapped", "practically trainable", or "behaviorly-distrubed" are only increasing the gap between people instead of bringing them together. By using the concept "soul in need of care" several levels in understanding of people in need of special support can be identified:

Instead of focussing on the common understanding of what a human being is, it is necessary to appreciate the invidual person with thier own talents and dissabillities as a part of the community.

If the individual human being, disabled or not, is to find its place in society or not is dependent on the form, values and aims of that society. Therefore, "normality" is nothing but the criteria of Philistines, as Rudolf Steiner described. The deciding factor will be the social changes and forms that will contribute to overcoming the old understanding of the disabled.