A Tribute to Wolf Wolfensberger

Abstract

Professor Wolf Wolfensberger, Director of the Training Institute for Human Service Planning, Leadership and Change Agentry at Syracuse University, New York, died at the end of February 2011. He was 76. He had leukaemia and had been unwell for some time, though he continued his hard work schedule at the Training Institute as much as he could. His influence on services for people with developmental disabilities has been one of the greatest of any single individual over the last 40 years. This influence has been on a global scale, with particularly strong (though sometimes unacknowledged) adoption of his perspectives and ideas throughout North America, in Britain and other European countries, and in Australia and New Zealand.