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The Principle Of Normalization In Human Services, Wolf P. Wolfensberger, Bengt Nirje, Simon Olshansky, Robert Perske, Philip Roos
The Principle Of Normalization In Human Services, Wolf P. Wolfensberger, Bengt Nirje, Simon Olshansky, Robert Perske, Philip Roos
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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 …