Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0006 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Victor of Aveyron
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The idea
Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, a French physician, wrote a case study of Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, who grew up without human contact.
In practice
One boy, found living apart from people, observed and described in great detail.
Where people slip
Itard published in eighteen oh two, nearly a century before the child study movement of the eighteen nineties.
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