GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
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was treated to special services within the home to help develop her language
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was locked in room, isolated and was not taught any kind of language, or communication.
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was kept in isolation for 6 months and had difficulty entering first grade
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was made to live outside the home until she was a teen and learned to live like a wild dog
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Detailed explanation-1: -Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked room.
Detailed explanation-2: -Genie’s story suggests that the acquisition of language has a critical period of development. Her case is complex, however, since it is unclear if her language deficits were due to deprivation or if there was an underlying mental disability that played a role.
Detailed explanation-3: -By the late 1970s, Genie had vanished back into obscurity. As she was a ward of California, authorities housed her in state-run institutions, her location secret. Four decades later, she apparently remains in state care.
Detailed explanation-4: -Overall, I believe Genie’s story is a great example of how brain development is affected by the environment. As she was isolated in a dark room with no interaction from anyone, it affected her ability to learn how to speak as over the years, her brain had no capacity for a language to be learnt.
Detailed explanation-5: -Genie’s linguistic competence (her grammar, if we can speak of a grammar at such an early stage of development) is in many ways on a par with a two or two and a half year old child. Her per-formance-particularly as related to expressive speech-is much poorer than normal children at this level.