**9. Conclusion**

The increased economic crisis in our era has dramatic influence in all sectors. Indicators reveal that whereas the world population will increase in the next 20 to 40 years by 2.593 million the increase of population in the EU27 countries is minimal. In parallel, the rates of unemployment are considerably disproportionate between disabled and non-disabled persons. There is, also, a quite unbalanced relationship between unemployed persons graduates of lower and upper secondary education and tertiary education. The rate of unemployed persons of lower secondary level raised from 2007 to 2009 by 47%, of upper secondary level by 25% and of tertiary level by 32%

The problems identified are related to an unbalanced relationship between unemployed disabled and non-disabled persons, educational attendance and social security expenditure.

Yet, the most important problem is the terminology used to describe persons with disabilities which is linguistically, psychologically and socially inappropriate. As a result, prevalence data are highly disputed preventing the implementation of the required measures and the effective communication between professionals, parents and disabled persons. In the sector of learning disabilities, which should be changed to learning impairments to avoid confusion between the general term and one of the types of learning impairments, the use of terms which are not clearly expressed should be given adequate consideration. Since, every type of disability is linked to the IQ score of disabled persons, attention to the use and usage of terms is both important and necessary.
