I recently ran across this 2 page information sheet, from an agency in Australia, which describes an employment service from a specifically Social Role Valorization perspective. The info. sheet makes reference to the 2006 article… Read More »‘Work and Social Role Valorization’
Take a look at the following video from a Social Role Valorization perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQt_Rq1mStE What lessons can we learn from this brief video? And what implications might these lessons have in terms of how we… Read More »‘Smart home’
Requiescat in pace. 1934-2011 Wolf Wolfensberger, Ph.D., 76, of Syracuse, New York, died on February 27, 2011, at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Since 1973, Dr. Wolfensberger was a… Read More »Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger: requiescat in pace
A 16 January 2011 NY Times article entitled ‘Tiniest patients discover meals made to order‘ underscores several points made in Social Role Valorization and the PASSING manual. The article describes recent efforts at improving hospital… Read More »‘Tiniest patients discover meals made to order:’ NY Times article
An article in the 9 January 2011 EducationLife insert of the New York Times described Landmark College: “The college of choice for students with learning disabilities and/or AD/HD.” Landmark is a two year college in… Read More »“The college of choice for students with learning disabilities and/or AD/HD”
A December 2010 Time magazine article used role language and other SRV-consistent language to describe the negative long-term effects of the physical and social separation between Israelis and Palestinians brought about by the ‘Wall’: a… Read More »Roles, expectations, segregation and Israel/Palestine