The Wild Boy of Aveyron
By: Harlan Lane.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Wild Boy of Aveyron; Children with mental disabilities -- Education; Deaf -- Education; Education of mentally retarded -- History; Education, Special -- History; Deafness
Description: A full account of Dr. Jean-Marc Itard's work, in the early 1800s, with Victor, who had lived wild for twelve years, and of the resulting educational, psychological, anthropological, and philosophical controversies and changes.
Notes: Bibliography p. [293]-317.
Includes index.