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Up for sale "Learning Disability" Samuel Kirk Hand Signed Newspaper Article. 

was an American psychologist and educator, who is best known for coining the

term learning disability.  Kirk was born in Rugby, North Dakota on

1 September 1904, to the farmers Richard and Nellie Kirk. He grew up on in a

farm town and taught farmhands how to read at night. Kirk served in the

military where he created a program for recruits who struggled with reading and

writing. Kirk

received both his bachelor's and master's degree in psychology from the University of Chicago. He

then obtained his PhD in physiological and clinical psychology from

the University of Michigan. He

married Winifred D. Kirk and had one son, Jerry Kirk, and one daughter,

Lorraine Kirk.  Samuel Kirk is

recognized for his accomplishments in the field of special education, while sometimes being referred to as the

“Father of Special Education”. He

began his teaching career at the Oaks School in Chicago in 1929, where he

worked specifically with boys who were delinquent and had mental disabilities. His

interest in the field of special education continued as he worked closely with

individuals with learning disabilities. Samuel Kirk “wrote so widely and so

authoritatively on so many aspects of mental retardation and learning disorders

and was responsible for so many innovations in diagnosis, training, and social

policy”. In

1963, Dr. Kirk delivered a speech to an education conference and was the first

to use and define the term “learning disability”. This

speech had a monumental effect on social policies and also helped name Dr. Kirk

to the federal post by John F. Kennedy who had a sister who had a mental

disability (now more commonly called an intellectual disability). Dr. Kirk laid

the groundwork for passing laws, which required schools to provide help for

children with learning disabilities. In public policy (1964), Dr. Kirk

persuaded Washington to provide money in order to train teachers to help

students with learning disabilities. Dr. Kirk's commitment to students with learning

disabilities led to the first ever Institute for Research on Exceptional

Children more than 50 years ago, which is still a popular foundation in the

special education department. Within Dr. Kirk's publications

regarding learning disabilities, he describes classifications used for children

with learning disabilities. This includes a unified classification of children

with low intelligence, while they are differentiated based on a degree of

learning deficit, for educational purposes. He also listed the causes he

discovered to be associated with learning disabilities. These are as

follows: brain injuries,

physiological disturbances, hereditary factors, and cultural factors. Within his

publication titled Educating the Retarded Child, he describes the

identification for a child with a learning disability to include a study of the

child across disciplines, or as a whole, intelligence tests, achievement tests, and personality and social maturity tests. 

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