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An accomplished surgeon who worked at the National Institute for Deaf-Mutes. Techniques and willingness to advocate was influential to training and education programs of the time. One of his cases were cited 60 years later to describe what is now known as Tourette's Syndrome. https://www.museumofdisability.org/exhibits/past/pantheon-of-disability-history/jean-marc-gaspard-itard/ -
He was considered the founder of psychiatry. He favored the moral treatment method that included the removal of restraints. He believed people with disabilities were ineducable. -
Established the first school to educate those with intellectual disabilities. He emphasized learning through movement. -
Due to his actions, new methods were created in educating blind and deaf children. The Perkins Institute would have the teacher, Anne Sullivan, who would learn the techniques needed to teach Helen Keller. -
Co-authored a resolution discouraging psychological testing by unqualified professionals. He founded special education departments in several universities and schools.
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Signed legislation that gave the nation the first steps in a "community-based system of supports" for the special education population.
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Part of the President's "great society" legislation included resources to help children with disabilities.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires children be educated with non-disabled peers to the fullest extent possible.
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