I am pleased to share the following message and request from Betsy Neuville for your review and input. Marc Tumeinski “I am writing on behalf of a small group of North American SRV Council members… Read More »strengthening SRV-related work internationally
This recent article in the NY Times would make a good basis for a Social Role Valorization-based exercise or discussion, in an agency, study group or university class. It would require thinking about multiple elements–first individually,… Read More »NY Times article: To Siri With Love: How One Boy With Autism Became BFF With Apple’s Siri
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’