Biography of wolfensberger artists

William  Bronston MD 2008, In Contemporary Appreciation of a Unique Teacher and Human Being: Wolf Wolfensberger

No one in the Twentieth Century has had such a profound impact on the language, content, imagery, integrity, cadre training efforts or literature in the field of developmental disabilities as Wolf Wolfensberger.

It can be said that, given this monumental contribution, mediated through hundreds, and thousands, of human service workers whose efforts and perspectives have been shaped by his direct and indirect teaching, the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of different people, have been transformed.

Not a small endowment. In fact, if there were a Nobel Prize to be given in “Human Services” or “Societal Values”, Wolf would be on the very short list for that recognition.

There is no more riveting lecturer, more avid student of history, sociology, Western religious philosophy, psychology, community systems design and o