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Story of Genie: The “Wild Child” Presented by: Bria Curry Anthony Hobson Jacqueline Gifuni

Feral Children. Story of Genie: The “Wild Child” Presented by: Bria Curry Anthony Hobson Jacqueline Gifuni Lindsay Moore. Development. Discovery on November 4 th , 1970 * Found 13 year-old girl Parental Care * Mother partially blind * Father emotionally unstable

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Story of Genie: The “Wild Child” Presented by: Bria Curry Anthony Hobson Jacqueline Gifuni

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  1. Feral Children Story of Genie: The “Wild Child” Presented by: Bria Curry Anthony Hobson Jacqueline Gifuni Lindsay Moore

  2. Development • Discovery on November 4th, 1970* Found 13 year-old girl • Parental Care* Mother partially blind* Father emotionally unstable • Extreme Confinement * Locked in Room* Tied to potty chair * She was named Genie because she ‘emerged’ into our world past puberty

  3. Development Years • Very Limited Communication with others • Bunny-like Walk • Barely able to chew or swallow • Could not focus beyond 12 feet • Weighed 59 lbs • 54 inches tall

  4. Ecology • Too Late to Learn? • Normal learning capacity? • Critical Period Hypothesis

  5. Lenneberg’s Critical Period Hypothesis • Language is an innate process • After lateralization the brain loses plasticity • Lateralization completed at puberty

  6. Critical Development Clip 1: MOVIE

  7. LanguageNature vs. Nuture • So the main question for Genie’s case: • Was she mentally disabled from birth? (nature) • Or was she deprived of language after her ‘critical period’? (nurture) • First, we must understand how language works.

  8. How Language Works • What went wrong with Genie?

  9. Was Genie Mentally Disabled From Birth? • Clip 2: MOVIE • Susan Curtiss: Genie, although functionally retarded because she had hardly lived and experienced the world around her, was not mentally deficient in any sense in which we typically think of as mentally deficient.

  10. EvolutionHow organisms change from one generation to the next Physical Development of Feral Children

  11. Characteristics • Variety of physical abnormalities • Bodies covered with hair • Various differences in shape of skull • Arms longer than normal

  12. Growth Retardation • Psychosocial Dwarfism • Smaller appearance for physical age • Without adequate nutrition we cannot grow and develop normally

  13. Senses • The ability to touch, taste, smell, hear, and see • Most feral children brought up by animals have good sense of smell, keen hearing and excellent sight

  14. Ambulation • Walking on all fours causes muscles to develop differently • Causes calluses on the palm of hands and knees • Ankle and leg joints become accustom to being bent most of the time *Oksana Malaya: feral child raised by dogs, would walk on her hands and knees

  15. What Happened to Genie? • Clip 3: MOVIE

  16. Works Cited • http://www.feralchildren.com/en/showchild.php?ch=genie • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition • Movie clips came from the NOVA documentary “Secret of the Wild Child”, available at the media center

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