Educational programs are directed to a wide variety of behaviors in a wide variety of physical and social settings. It is based on an individualized and personalizing system. The teaching community model is personalizing in the sense that treats the individual as person not as an anonymous patient or client. Also in the sense that it seeks the development of the individual as a person. Labels are not used.
Children are children.
Not to label a child is not the same as not to label his or her behavior. Of course autistic behavior is inappropriate and requires a label for its study. But autistic behavior is not the manifestation of a symptom or a psichological or biological problem. Children are not retarded or autistic, it is their behavior which we label as autistic. But topography or amount of behavior are the only criteria to label it as autistic.