Genie Feral Child Essay

Feral children or wild children are children who were raised in a nonsocial environment at a young age. These children often don’t gain social behaviors, love, and care nor do they develop language. In the 1970s, a girl by the name of Genie was found in Los Angeles California. She turned out to be feral child. Who grew up locked up in a room and was abused by her father. She grew physically but her mind and language development was a problem. When Genie was found she barely knew how to walk, eat properly and she had no language develop. The critical period is the times during development in which a person does not get enough stimulus and this results a part of the brain to become damage since it is not put to use. For Genie the critical period

She was about 13 years old. When she was discovered she was taken to Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles were a lot of doctors, scientist and psychologist got interest in her case. These professionals saw her case as an opportunity to conduct the forbidden experiment, to gain money, and some to help. One of these people was the graduate student studying in linguistic. She saw Genie as an opportunity for her to do something she had an interest in but it seems like she has just used her to finish her master’s program. The graduate student seemed more interested on the case, on the situation rather than just wanting to help Genie gain everything she had lost. Along with all the other psychologist she worked with seemed more interested in the case than on Genie. One of the psychologists whom she worked with seemed more wanting to help her. The Rigler family describes that the first time they met Genie, something in her face caught their attention. I liked the idea that they brought her into their home and gave her a more house family environment; they got her engaged onto daily activities. Although they were doing all of this, she seemed to start getting more language development than what she had before. The problem was that she wasn’t able to speak full complete sentences; this indicated the critical language period. At the same time I didn’t like idea of Dr. Rigler was playing both parts of a care giver