He said, 'Once you habilitate an individual, he can be rehabilitated.'

To habilitate means to "enable", to "equip for", to "capacitate"; in other words, to assist in performing whatever function that needs to be performed".

In 1972 she could habilitate in Göttingen about the Syrian gnostic Bardesanes of Edessa.

It also deals with treatment by natural sources, based on movement, manual therapy and other physical agents to relieve pain, promote healing, prevent or ameliorate deformity, improve function, body health, stimulate or habilitate development in a child or rehabilitate those impaired by disease or trauma."