The Principle of Normalization In Human Services
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Description
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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.