Édouard Séguin
Édouard Séguin | |
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| Born | January 20, 1812 |
| Died | October 28, 1880 (aged 68) |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Known for | Work with children with cognitive impairments |
Édouard Séguin (January 20, 1812 – October 28, 1880) was a French physician and
Background and career in France
He studied at the Collège d’Auxerre and the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris, and from 1837 studied and worked under Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who was an educator of deaf-mute individuals, that included the celebrated case of Victor of Aveyron, also known as "The Wild Child". It was Itard who persuaded Séguin to dedicate himself to study the causes, as well as the training of individuals with intellectual disabilities. As a young man, Séguin was also influenced by the ideas of utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon.
Around 1840, he established the first private school in Paris dedicated to the education of individuals with intellectual disabilities. In 1846, he published Traitement Moral, Hygiène, et Education des Idiots (The Moral Treatment, Hygiene, and Education of Idiots and Other Backward Children). This work is considered to be the earliest systematic textbook dealing with the special needs of children with intellectual disabilities.
Achievements in the United States
Following the European
In the United States, he established a number of schools in various cities for treatment of the mentally disabled. In 1866 he published "Idiocy: and its Treatment by the Physiological Method"; a book in which he described the methods used at the "Séguin Physiological School" in New York City. Programs used in Séguin's schools stressed the importance of developing self-reliance and independence in the intellectually disabled by giving them a combination of physical and intellectual tasks.
Édouard Séguin became the first president of the "Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feebleminded Persons", an organization that would later be known as the
In the 1870s, Séguin published three works in the field of
Works
- Traitement Moral, Hygiène et éducation des idiots et des autres enfants arriérés ... Paris: Baillière. 1846.
- Idiocy: and its Treatment by the Physiological Method. New York: W. Wood & Co. 1866.
- New Facts and Remarks Concerning Idiocy: Being a Lecture Delivered before the New York Medical Journal Association, October 15, 1869. New York: Wood. 1870.
- Medical Thermometry, and Human Temperature. New York. 1871.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Report on Education. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1875.
- Psycho-physiological Training of the Idiotic Hand. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1879.
Notes
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References
- DHM: Library- In Memory Of Edouard Seguin, M.D. (Document)
- Parts of this article are based on a translation of the equivalent article from the German Wikipedia.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links
- Excerpts of Séguin's 1866 Treatise on Treatment of the Mentally Handicapped
- Scientific American, "Dr. Edward Seguin", 27 November 1880, p. 344
