Gunnar dybwad biography of albert einstein
Gunnar Dybwad, Professor of Human Development at the Florence Heller Graduate School of Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, Brandeis University.
The son of a Norwegian architect, Gunnar Dybwad was born in Leipzig, Germany, on July 12, He earned a doctorate in law from the University of Halle in..
Recalling a Trip: Looking Back With a Disability Pioneer
By Rick Rader, MD, Editor-in-chief, HELEN
The history of the disability rights movement chronicles the contribution of early pioneer advocates and luminaries.
Among those who are standouts was Dr. Gunnar Dybwad, an early proponent of the self-advocacy movement and social model of disability. For him, disability accommodations weren’t a question of medical treatment, but a matter of civil rights.
In a 1988 interview with the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities, Dybwad talked about the dismal conditions he witnessed at a state-run institution in Tennessee at the end of the 1950s.
HELEN is proud to share an excerpt from this interview that offers a glimpse of how far we’ve come in the hopes that with this knowledge we’ll never witness such atrocities again.
Readers of HELEN need to know about Dybwad, his work, his legacy, and his enduring message of both human and civil rights