Today we remember mostly his relationship with the beautiful Heloize so tragically terminated. Abelard was considered to be one of the greatest philosophers and teachers of his time. The essence of Abelard's method is stimulating students by way of putting forward contradictory assumptions and viewpoints related to a chosen branch of thought. And although Abelard used this method in relation to dialectics so popular throughout the Middleages, it seems that today we may also consider it's usefulness in view of the requirements of contemporary concepts concerning employing technologies for disabled people. Assistive Technology devices are formed influenced by assumptions of the contemporary rehabilitation paradigm.
Normalization is the fundamental rehabilitation paradigm of today.
A considerable part of means of assistive technology, particularly the computer network, meet the requirements of the above mentioned assumptions. These very means may enable disabled people to live and function in accordance with the idea of a normal and dignified existence accepted in contemporary societies. This certainly will take place mostly in cases of making use of the technical means in form and degree surpassing considerably the common standards. Fearsome and biased attitudes towards contemporary medical technologies most common in numerous societies may also have an impact as far as forming of attitudes towards the whole group of disabled people is concerned. Thus we must take into account a process of intensification of the above mentioned mistrust, emotional stresses and feelings of physical and functional differences so common in contacts of nonprofessionals with persons with visible disfunctions, deformations and development disorders.