Henry H. Goddard

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Henry H. Goddard
Born	(1866-08-15)August 15, 1866 Vassalboro, Maine
Died	June 18, 1957(1957-06-18) (aged 90) Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Academic psychologist, American football coach
Known for	Eugenicist and segregationist
Academic background
Education	Haverford College Clark University
Academic work
Discipline	Psychologist
Sub-discipline	Intelligence
Institutions	University of Southern California Damascus Academy West Chester, Pennsylvania's State Normal School
Notable students	Marie Skodak Crissey[1]

Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14, 1866 – June 18, 1957) was an American psychologist, eugenicist, and segregationist during the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness,^[2] which he himself came to regard as flawed for its ahistoric depiction of the titular family, and for translating the Binet intelligence test into English in 1908 and distributing an estimated 22,000 copies of the translated test across the United States. He also introduced the term "moron" for clinical use.^[2]

He was the main advocate for the use of intelligence testing in societal institutions including hospitals, schools, the legal system and the military. He helped develop the new topic of clinical psychology, in 1911 helped to write the first U.S. law requiring that blind, deaf and intellectually disabled children be provided special education within public school systems,^{[citation needed]} and in 1914 became the first American psychologist to testify in court that subnormal intelligence should limit the criminal responsibility of defendants.