Pejorative terms like "mentally handicapped",  or "behaviorly-disturbed" 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 individual person with thier own talents and disabillities as a part of the community.

Whether or not the individual human being can find his place in a particular society is dependent on the structures, 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.