PEOPLE KNOWN FOR: special education
American psychiatrist
Edouard Séguin was a French-born American psychiatrist who pioneered modern educational methods for teaching the severely intellectually disabled. Born into a family of prominent physicians in Burgundy,...
German educator
Samuel Heinicke was a German advocate for and teacher of oralism (one of many early communication methods devised for use by hearing-impaired individuals) in the education of the deaf. After receiving...
French physician
Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard was a French physician noted for his work with the deaf and with the “wild boy of Aveyron.” Itard was originally marked for the banking profession, but, when the French Revolution...
American educator
Harriet Burbank Rogers educator and pioneer in the oral method of instruction of the deaf in the United States. After graduating from Massachusetts State Normal School (now Framingham State College) in...
Belgian educator
Ovide Decroly was a Belgian pioneer in the education of children, including those with physical disabilities. Through his work as a physician, Decroly became involved in a school for disabled children...
Spanish educator
Juan Pablo Bonet Spanish cleric and educator who pioneered in the education of the deaf. Bonet helped develop one of the earliest and most successful methods for educating the deaf and improving their...
French abbot
Roch-Ambroise Cucurron, Abbé Sicard was a French educator who was a pioneer in the teaching of the deaf. From 1786 to 1789, Sicard, an abbé, was principal of a Bordeaux school for the deaf. He then succeeded...