Victor of Aveyron

He made these experiments in the Institute for Deaf Mutes, founded in Paris by Pereira, and actually succeeded in making the semi-deaf hear clearly.

Later on, having in charge for eight years the idiot boy known as the Wild Boy of Aveyron, he extended to the treatment of all the senses those educational methods which had already given such excellent results in the treatment of the sense of hearing.

a student of Pinel, Itar, was the first educator to practice the observation of the pupil in the way in which the sick are observed in the hospitals, especially those suffering from diseases of the nervous system.

The pedagogic writings of Itar are most interesting and minute descriptions of educational efforts and experiences, and anyone reading them today must admit that they were practically the first attempts at experimental psychology.