Mark Burton, a psychologist and service manager with a community support team in Victoria, discusses such terms as "learning difficulties", the problems associated with them, and the use of collective terms for people who have disabilities. In a separate article attached, Len Spriggs responds to Burton's article and argues that it has not mattered what people are called - it has had very little impact on the status and opportunities for people - each change of label is still a label by which WE can describe THEM. Keyword: Attitudes