Who is known for working with Wild Boy of Aveyron?
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education
special education
Eventually, his case was taken up by a young physician, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who worked with the boy for five years and gave him his name, Victor.
Victor of Aveyron | |
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Born | c. 1788 Aveyron, Rouergue, France |
Died | 1828 (aged 40) Paris, France |
Other names | The Wild Boy of Aveyron |
Known for | being a Feral child |
Also, why did itard abandon his study of Victor?
Controversy. Itard was not alone in criticizing his work with Victor. Several modern psychologists have also opined that Victor was not in fact feral but mentally retarded, psychotic or autistic, and was abandoned in the woods because of this.
Consequently, who is the father of special education?
Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, a French physician, is considered to be the father of special education.
It was Itard who persuaded Séguin to dedicate himself to study the causes, as well as the training of individuals with intellectual disabilities. As a young man, Séguin was also influenced by the ideas of utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon.