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Reports on the Savage of Aveyron
work by Itard
Also known as: “Rapports sur le sauvage de l’Aveyron”, “The Wild Boy of Aveyron”
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discussed in biography
- In Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
…le sauvage de l’Aveyron (1807; Reports on the Savage of Aveyron), he explained the methods that he used (1801–05) in trying to train and educate an unsocialized 11-year-old boy who had been found in a forest in Aveyron, south of Paris.
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history of special education
- In special education: Historical background
In his classic book The Wild Boy of Aveyron (1807), he related his five-year effort to train and educate a boy who had been found running wild in the woods of Aveyron. Itard’s work with the boy became notable for the possibilities it raised regarding the education of persons…
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