Disabled, like the word “handicap”, is an umbrella term to describe varying forms of intellectual to physical impairments. In recent years, “disability” has replaced “handicap” in much of Western Europe and the United States. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the term “handicap” was used to describe a person’s “deficit” or inability to function “normally.” Beginning in the 1970s this concept of “deficit” and related words like “handicapped” became increasingly contested. Activists argued that a disability was not an individual problem to solve, but a social construct that made living with an impairment into a problem. People no longer wanted to be called “the disabled,” but rather “disabled people” (UK) or “people with disabilities” or “differently abled” (US).