Feral children

Throughout recorded history, a number of children have emerged from the wilds, apparently undomesticated and unable to communicate with the curious observers who captured and tried to tame them. These creatures have been called feral children, "presumably born in a socialized state, placed in the wild, and recaptured into civilization." The best known of these was a boy of about 11 or 12, found in the forests of Aveyron in France at the beginning of the 19th century. The boy was eventually captured and placed in the care of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard around 1801. Itard had just received his medical degree, and he saw

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f his characters refer to the deaf, blind, and mute girl: "She is like a little safe, locked that no one can open. Perhaps there is a treasure inside," to which Anne Sullivan, who became her teacher, replies, "Maybe it's empty, too?" Although Keller required Sullivan to do work that was initially as frustrating as Itard's work with Victor must have been, Keller eventually learned to communicate, both through sign language and through speech. Her condition made the initial breakthrough difficult, but Keller had grown up around other people, allowing her to become accustomed to society and to have a context in which to put her behavior. In many ways, though, Itard laid the foundation for Sullivan's work: "Itard and Victor inspired later generations to take seriously the problem of how to communicate with those unable to do so in usual ways." Harlan Lane argues, "Knowledge . . . requires us to sort out elements and to arrange in some order what occurs simultaneously in the original experience." The experience of feral children forces them to find unique ways of arranging their understanding. Scientists who have studied children like Victor have found themselves asking basic questions about their own ways of gaining know
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