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Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe
American educator
Edouard Séguin
American psychiatrist
Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
French physician
Niels Erik Bank-Mikkelsen
Danish reformer
Walter E. Fernald
American doctor and administrator
A.R. Luria
Soviet neuropsychologist
Gunnar Dybwad
American author, administrator, and activist
Rosemary F. Dybwad
American author and activist
Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol
French psychiatrist