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"Seguin had come to believe that idiocy was not the result of deficiency or malformation of the brain or nervous system, but was simply an arrest of mental development that occurred either before, at, or after birth due to variety of causes. Moreover, in Seguin’s view, the disability could be overcome by appropriate treatment. That treatment was called the Physiological Method and was propagated in Seguin’s important 1844 text, Traitement Moral, Hygiene, et Education des Idiots." Page 7
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An appearance of ungraded classrooms began in the 1870s as one student could not master the curriculum for the lowest grade in San Francisco. This spread across the country for students who could not succeed in general education classrooms
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According to the website of the Vineland Training School, the original official name was "The New Jersey Home for the Education and Care of Feebleminded Children” (1888). This was changed to “The New Jersey Training School” in 1893
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