Day 3 - The Wild Boy of Aveyron

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The “Wild Boy of Aveyron” refers to the supposed "feral child" that was found around 1800 living in the woods outside of Aveyron in southern France. The child was taken in and observed by Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, a French Physician. Itard named the boy Victor and found that he could make sounds, but could not speak, rocked when seated, trotted, and had a short attention span. Itard created an educational program for the boy, therefore Victor became known as the first special education student, and Itard the father of special education.

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American Psychological Association. (n.d.). APA Dictionary of Psychology: wild boy of Aveyron. American Psychological Association. Retrieved September 23, 2021, from https://dictionary.apa.org/wild-boy-of-aveyron.