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Victor was a French feral child who lived in the woods in the countryside of France in early childhood. He was found naked and behaved like an animal. He was captured once but then escaped. He was recaptured and put in care of an old widow then escaped again. This time on the year of January 1800, he emerged from the woods on his own. It stated Victor was around 11 or 12 when he was spotted in St. Sernin. He was at first caught in St. Sernin then taken to an orphanage in Saint Affrique. The news spread about him all over France. Pierre Joseph Bonnetare a biological proffesor wanted to be the first one to study the boy. Most philosphers believed Victor to be a deaf-mute because he did not respond to certain questions or sounds-even though he can hear. Victor was soon taken to the National Institute for the Deaf-Mutes in Paris. Sicard was unable to educate him because of his behavior. Victor was being treated as a display to the Parisians, until the philosphers in Paris notified him that he was an incurable idiot (a child incable of learning). They thought Bicetre was the best solution. Itard a young medical student thinks of it different that his isolation from human society has caused his behavior. He decides to civlize the boy and gives him the name Victor. Victor did make progress in some things, but still never learned to speak, except saying two words "Lait (milk" and "Oh, Dieu (oh, God)". Itard later on after working for so many years gave up on the case. Victor was left in the care of Madame Guerin (the woman who nourished him, fed him and behaved like a mother to him). Victor died in Paris in 1828. There were some proven insticts later on that Victor had some autistic behaviors-because it was reported that they see him rock back and forth making guttural humming and his preference to certain food and how he reacted with clothing. Unable to weep or sneeze. Unable to feel certain temeratures and how he showed no reaction when he touched a burning coal. And why the philosphers labeled him as an "idiot" and why he was unable to communicate.
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How did people believe Victor the Wild Boy of Aveyron was deaf?
Although Victor could hear, he was sent to the National Institute for Deaf-Mutes in Paris. It was reported he never reacted to certain sounds and speech. Itard soon found out Victor was not deaf, and some sounds had no meaning to him. And he possibly couldn't understand speech because of being isolated in the wild for so many years.
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Why did Itard chose to give up on Victor?
Itard worked with Victor for many years from 1800 to 1806, even though Victor did make some progress. He still never learned speech and how to cope with human society. Victor was still drawn to nature. Because Victor would not speak and was not able bond with human society was the reason Itard chose to abandon him. Because the reports that say Victor was an "incurable idiot"-he at first pointed out that the cause of Victor's behavior was the solitude he lived in many years in the wild-but later on he did come to realize Victor did suffer from a mental disability. His progress with Victor eventually began to slow down until Itard chose to abandon his experiment. Victor was left to live in a small house with the housekeeper (known as Victor's caregiver) Madame Guerin.
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Why was Victor the wild boy of Aveyron not house trained?
Some reports say the reason why Victor was not toilet trained and relieved himself wherever he was (indoors or outdoors) was because of living the life of as an animal for many years unknown to civilization.
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How did people believe Victor the Wild Boy of Aveyron was deaf?
Although Victor could hear, he was sent to the National Institute for Deaf-Mutes in Paris. It was reported he never reacted to certain sounds and speech. Itard soon found out Victor was not deaf, and some sounds had no meaning to him. And he possibly couldn't understand speech because of being isolated in the wild for so many years.
Why did Itard stop working with Victor the Wild Boy?
Itard had worked with Victor the Wild Boy of Aveyron for five years. His main goal was to get Victor to speak, but according to all the steps he tried teaching Victor, Victor remained mute. Although Victor made progress with his other educations and basics he was taught by Itard. Itard somehow found out later on that Victor could've been in a way mentally disabled and that possibly could've caused his silence. Victor was in adolescence when he was captured and brought to Paris and taken in by Itard-and Itard later realized that a child must learn how to speak before reaching puberty (adolescence). Because if an adolescent had lack of human speech it would be impossible to teach them speech.
Was Victor the wild boy of Aveyron deaf?
There are many cases that people believed he was because he never responded to certain sounds and never spoke. But once after living in the care of Itard, Victor learned to understand words, tones of voices and Itard pointed out Victor was not deaf. He will always turn his head whenever he hears a vowel sound "oh". Itard gave him the name Victor. It was clear Victor can hear but just made no reaction to certain sounds-he did not understand speech in his early captivity. That assumes Victor was abandoned from human society from his early childhood.
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When was Victor the wild boy first seen and captured?
Victor was seen in the forest near a village .called LaCaune in 1797 and captured in 1798. He evaded capture there twice.
When was Victor the wild boy of Aveyron found?
Victor (known as the Savage of Aveyron) was actually first spotted in the woods above a village of LaCaune France between 1797 & 1798 then was captured briefly and escaped. He was captured again in 1799 and brought back to the same village and housed by an old widow and fled to the mountains and was sighted in a small village of Tarn. On January 8, 1800 in the middle of winter, he emerged from the woods on his own-then came to a field in the outskirts of a town called Saint Sernin and was found by a man named Vidal-this time he no longer could escape from his capture. He wasn't entirely naked as he was when he was first spotted (he had shreds of shirt hanging around his neck or was found in a tattered gown).
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Saint-Maurice-sur-Aveyron's population is 859.
Why did Victor the wild boy never wore clothes?
Victor never wore clothes since he was abandoned in the woods. Many people clothed him but he stripped the clothes off since he escaped.
What term is used to describe children who are assumed to have been raised by animals in the wilderness and isolated from other children such as the boy of Aveyron?
Feral
