 Therefore, the sections that follow that do document his work will use terms that some may consider old-fashioned, out of date or worse.Wolfensberger first rose to international prominence through his leadership in the movement to establish Normalization in North America and elsewhere, beginning in the late-1960s.He did not “invent” normalization but he, more than anyone else, explained and shepherded it into prominence as a major service paradigm, especially in North America.