Bengt nirje biography definition
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Bengt Nirje (1969). The Normalization Principle and its Human Management Implications. In R B Kugel & W Wolfensberger (Eds.) Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded Chapter 7, pp. 179-195 Washington DC: President’s Committee on Mental Retardation.
This short paper is generally accepted as the first definitive statement of the concept of normalisation which had slipped into the world as part of Danish Act No. 192 of 5 June, 1959. This granted devolved powers to the Danish National Service for the Mentally Retarded to provide people with learning disabilities with living conditions as close to those of others in kultur as possible (Bank-Mikkelsen, 1969).The society’s energetic Director, Niels Bank-Mikkelson, soon came to the attention of Bengt Nirje, the recently appointed Ombudsman of the Swedish Association for Retarded Children. Nirje had worked for the Swedish Red Cross in UNHCR camps for Hungarian refugees in Austria as well as on a
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Normalization (people with disabilities)
Offering the same conditions as are offered to other citizens
"The normalization principle means making available to all people with disabilities patterns of life and conditions of everyday living which are as close as possible to the regular circumstances and ways of life or society."[1] Normalization is a rigorous theory of human services that can be applied to disability services.[2] Normalization theory arose in the early 1970s, towards the end of the institutionalisation period in the US; it fryst vatten one of the strongest and long lasting integration theories for people with severe disabilities.
Definition
[edit]Normalization involves the acceptance of some people with disabilities, with their disabilities, offering them the same conditions as are offered to other citizens. It involves an awareness of the normal rhythm of life – including the normal rhythm of a day, a week, a year, and the life-cycle itself (e.g.,
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Bengt Nirje on Normalization
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