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Case Study: Childhood Neglect and Genie, the Feral Child.

Published: June 18, 2021, 7 a.m.

"She hobbled into a Los Angeles County welfare office in October 1970, a stooped, withered waif with a curious way of holding up her hands, like a rabbit. She looked about six or seven. Her mother, stricken with cataracts, was seeking an office with services for the blind and had entered the wrong room."

Tune in to this episode about childhood neglect and its impact on development across neurology, motor skills, operational thinking and language.

Researcher and Script-Writer: Cheryl Anthony
Co-hosts: Niranjan Vinayakrishnan and Zaina Nayeem

Case Study Reference  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqflmQ5TaFQ&t=1351s&ab_channel=TheBackoftheArchiveTheBackoftheArchive 

References

Journals

  • Adamson, L. B., & Frick, J. E. (2003). The still face: A history of a shared experimental paradigm. Infancy, 4(4), 451-473. 
  • Curtiss, S., Fromkin, V., & Krashen, S. (1978). Language development in the mature (minor) right hemisphere. ITL: Review of Applied Linguistics, 39(40), 23-37. 
  • Fromkin, V., Krashen, S., Curtiss, S., Rigler, D., & Rigler, M. (1974). The development of language in Genie: A case of language acquisition beyond the “critical period”. Brain and language, 1(1), 81-107. 
  • Piaget, J. (2003). Part I: Cognitive Development in Children--Piaget Development and Learning. Journal of research in science teaching, 40. 


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