Jean Itard
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, born 24 April 1774 Biography He studied at the College of Laugh then at the Oratory to Marseille until 1789. He became in 1793 during the siege of Toulon , the assistant Vincent Arnoux, director of the military hospital and a family friend. It followed from 1795 during the surgery Dominique-Jean Larrey , first at Toulon, and Paris, the Val de Grace: he won the competition for second-class surgeon. He had not yet completed his studies in 1800 - there will be a doctor two years later - when he was given by the Abbe Sicard , director of the Institution of Deaf-mutes in the Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, responsibility for one called the wild boy of Aveyron. Sicard member as the Society of Observers of Man , it went down in history for the general public through its Memorandum and Report on Education of the Wild Child. He drove his initial action research inspired by the philosophy of John Locke and tienne Bonnot de Condillac , but also in context of debates which agitated proponents of building a general science of man. The development of language and cognitive functions there was an important place. He was particularly interested in the dmutisation deaf and rehabilitation of stuttering. Medical Institute of the Deaf in Paris (now National Institute of deaf children ), he is the author of a large number of scientific papers in various fields of medicine: otology, audiology, speech pathology and neurology. In a memoir on some involuntary functions of the apparatus of locomotion, grasping voice (1825), Itard gave the first medical description of tics symptomatic of this disease through the case of the young Marquise de Dampierre who showed the "spasms Involuntary convulsive "and produced" strange cries and words that made no sense, but without delusions and without mental disorders " Publications 
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