Today, over five hundred million people in the world have some sort of disability. Although the society's way of treating disabled people has changed throughout history, the term "disability" has stayed the same in its core. The term "disabled" comes from the Latin word and it refers to a person who has partly or fully lost a certain ability because of physical or mental damage. Over the years, these people have been marginalized, rejected, misunderstood, without proper care and lacking the tools needed to live a dignified life. In the past, their illness was thought of as the God's punishment and fury or it was believed that they were influenced by some paranormal forces. As such, they were killed and tortured, as well as hidden and removed from society because of the belief that they were cursed. In the beginning, those people were treated by a sorcerer and later on by priests. At that time, it wasn't easy to have a sick family member, child or grown-up. Those families were forced to leave their children behind to the hands of fate. They were looked at as if they were cursed, their illness the consequence of God's wrath. The care offered to them by their families was inadequate because the families had nowhere to educate themselves about the variety of mental disorders and illnesses nor did they have anyone to show them how to improve their care. It was years later that the treatment of these people started changing. Today, there is a whole spectrum of diagnoses and illnesses, but the society still acts unjustly, discriminatory and primitively towards people with intellectual disadvantages. Unfortunately, those people still have problems with being included in the community, finding jobs, and they face obstacles in every aspect of their lives, from entering the building they live in to public places which should be accessible to everyone in the same way. For years, the term "people with special needs" has been used, but Croatia has adopted the Sheraton declaration in 2003, according to which an adult person is referred to as "person with disability", whereas the children are referred to as "children with developmental issues". The Croatian registry law of people with disabilities defines these people as individuals with permanent limitations or reduced abilities (or complete lack thereof) of performing some physical activity or age-appropriate psychological function, all of which result from damaged health.