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article: ‘NY dinner puts wealthy and homeless at same tables’
Take a look at this recent news item from a Social Role Valorization (SRV) perspective. It could make for a good exercise to read and analyze this from various SRV angles, such as interpersonal identification, vulnerability, image enhancement, image communicators, language use, physical and social setting, personal social integration and valued social/societal participation, etc. […]
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NY Times article: To Siri With Love: How One Boy With Autism Became BFF With Apple’s Siri
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, and then collectively. This is one of the strengths of SRV and PASSING: that it teaches people how to think […]
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‘A Damaging Distance’
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 facilitators of identification include positive contact between people, and helping people to experience the world the way another person does. […]
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recent blog post: “GPS – the debate on tracking equipment for people with dementia”
Read the following blog post and consider what an Social Role Valorization perspective (valued social roles, image and competency enhancement, culturally valued analog, heightened vulnerability, greater access to the good things of life, etc.) would add. http://dementiachallengers.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/gps-the-debate-on-tracking-equipment-for-people-with-dementia/ Tweet
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first welcome video for the 2015 SRV conference
Please check out and share our first welcome message for the 2015 International Social Role Valorization conference being held in Providence, Rhode Island in the US. More messages to come! Tweet
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SRV on the Brockville & District Association website
Read about why this Association for Community Involvement adopted Social Role Valorization as its guiding framework. Marc Tumeinski Tweet
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update on the 1999 Institute of Medicine report
In 1999, the US Institute of Medicine published a report concerning dangers to all patients in hospitals. From the report: At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented, according to estimates from two major studies. Online […]
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looking for brief videos to use in teaching about SRV
Based on my last blog post, and a question from a university professor about using videos, I am going to repost some of the videos which we have shared on this blog in the past (see below). I am also going to invite our blog readers to share links to brief videos that you have […]
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brief video on unconsciousness/selective awareness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSoI_HksoU Think about the points made in this 4 minute video in terms of what Social Role Valorization (SRV) teaches about unconsciousness/lack of awareness about the social processes of devaluation. Can you make any points of connection with SRV theory? Marc Tumeinski Tweet
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UK report: ‘Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities’
One of the wounding experiences which can result from social and societal devaluation is that of deathmaking, a term coined by Dr. Wolfensberger to describe actions that hasten the death of societally devalued people (cf. Wolfensberger, SRV monograph, 2013 , pp. 35-36, 41; and The New Genocide of Handicapped and Afflicted People). A 5 April […]
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