January 20th
- He was a French-born Americanpsychiatrist who
- opened the world’s first school for the severely mentally retarded (1839).
- He was a student of Jean Gaspard Itard, whosuggested this speciality. Seguin developed a sensory training method.
- In 1850, Seguin moved to the U.S. where he set up more teaching centres for the retarded.
