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Also Known As mental retardation

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Edouard Séguin
American psychiatrist
Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
French physician
Walter E. Fernald
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Niels Erik Bank-Mikkelsen
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A.R. Luria
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Gunnar Dybwad
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Rosemary F. Dybwad
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Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol
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