Nancy Artz Wolfensberger, 73, of Syracuse, NY, passed away Sunday, August 10, 2014, at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Born in Commiskey, IN, she lived in Syracuse from 1972, after residing for a number of years in Omaha,… Read More »Nancy Artz Wolfensberger
A 19 July 2014 NY Times op-ed piece entitled ‘The Future of Robot Caregivers’ is worth carefully examining from a Social Role Valorization (SRV) perspective, especially in light of the SRV themes of roles, of mindsets,… Read More »SRV theme of model coherency, mindsets … and robot caregivers
The NY Times article entitled ‘A Damaging Distance: For Israelis and Palestinians, Separation is Dehumanizing’ bears relevance to the SRV theme of interpersonal identification (Wolfensberger, A Brief Introduction to Social Role Valorization, 1998, pp. 118-120). Some of the… Read More »‘A Damaging Distance’
An interesting example of paying attention to imagery (personal appearance and possessions), and to what is normative and valued in a culture for a specific age group (children, in this case), among other things. http://teddytheguardian.com/… Read More »‘Teddy the guardian’
One of the strengths of applying SRV and using the PASSING tool is that it offers a way to carry out a comprehensive analysis, taking into account a variety of relevant issues. This June 2014… Read More »workshop or university course exercise: article “Shrewsbury Little Leaguer with autism shines as MVP”
The following 2012 article refers to normalization and Social Role Valorization, and draws heavily on existing SRV literature.