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Description
The underlying principles inherent in Normalization have lead to such recent developments as the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons brought into being by the International League of Societies for the Mentally Handicapped.
This book is the first one to document normalization from its origins in Scandinavian services to the mentally retarded to its implications to the field of human services. The National Institute on Mental Retardation has published this text to support the current growing interest in normalization concepts and fuller integration of the retarded into the community. This concept is currently having a major impact on the pattern of programming in a number of countries. The views expressed in this book do not necessarily reflect the Institute's specific strategies, or those of its sponsor, the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded.
The publication of The principle of normalization in human services, and earlier of Mental retardation • the law • guardianship and Standards for educators of exceptional children in Canada are examples of the Institute's recently established publishing policy to bring to the attention of a wider public new concepts, innovative programs and reports of studies by the Institute itself and by others in the field of the mentally handicapped and in human services generally.
Publication Date
1972
Publisher
National Institute on Mental Retardation
City
Toronto
Keywords
Wolf Wolfensberger, Normalization, UNMC, University of Nebraska Medical Center, The Principle of Normalization in Human Services, Wolfensberger Collection
Disciplines
Education | Psychiatric and Mental Health
Recommended Citation
Wolfensberger, Wolf P.; Nirje, Bengt; Olshansky, Simon; Perske, Robert; and Roos, Philip, "The Principle of Normalization In Human Services" (1972). Books: Wolfensberger Collection. 1.
https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/wolf_books/1
Comments
Permission for online publication of the book, The Principle of Normalization In Human Services, granted by CACL, the Canadian Association for Community Living.
Wolf Wolfensberger was born in Germany in 1934 and migrated to the United States in 1950. He received a doctorate in psychology and special education from George Peabody College for Teachers, and has worked as a clinician, researcher, teacher, and administrator in mental retardation. From 1964 to 1971, he was a Mental Retardation Research Scientist at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute in Omaha, Nebraska, and was a Visiting Scholar with the National Institute on Mental Retardation in Toronto, Canada. Interests include systematic planning of service systems, and implementation of the normalization principle and of citizen advocacy.