Genie, The Wild Child is a video of a child who was kept isolated from the outside world for about 13 years. This video shows how she was discovered and how she was able to cope with the new environment presented before her. She was kept inside her room because her father though that she was mentally retarded when she was born.
PHYSICAL
Brain Growth- Genie never learned how to talk. She was beaten if she made any type of sound. She explored by feel and using her lips to fell objects. Her doctors wanted to check her brain growth; they monitored her brain waves and found out that she had high number of brain spindles. High number of brain spindles refers to abnormal brain wave pattern. Brain spindles are waves of brain activity during sleep. Her difficulty with language production and language comprehension might be due to the abnormal development of Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area.
Bodily growth- She had a strange walk and inhuman characteristics. Her feet and arms were not straight like normal children. She stares into object or people and observe them without saying anything.
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Genie was a locked up in her room by her father until she was 13 ½
One hundred and thirteen children have the mind of an adolescent, but the body of the elderly. (Gordon) These children are dealing with the deadly disease known as Progeria. The main cause of this is a minute genetic mutation, which leads to an abundant amount of symptoms. Progeria does not affect a ubiquitous number of people; however, it still has an impact on the victim and their families. In the beginning stages, the child grows slowly without any weight gain resulting in the appearance of aging. The child's life is also affected due to the symptoms, tests, and treatments they experience. Progeria is a rare ailment in adolescents that stems from a specific genetic abnormality for which there is no current cure, and it dramatically impacts the life of the individual physically, mentally, and emotionally.
When the children are diagnosed they have a number of symptoms that point towards progeria. When they are born there is no sign that they have progeria. They look like normal babies. They start having the appearance of someone with progeria as they get into their first or second birthday. They start to loose all of their hair, including the eyebrows, their veins start sticking out like an elderly person's would. They have ears that have no ear lobes and that stick out a lot."A broad, mildly concave nasal ridge nose, prominent eyes, thin lips and micrognathia (small jaw) with a vertical midline groove in the chin."(Baek, McKenna, Eriksson, 2013) Their teeth grow slowly...
eyes of a child who has absolutely no idea why everything around him has suddenly
A few of the misconceptions that people have of feral children stem from Disney’s romanticization of these movies. The films are praised for their fun and uplifting stories, the tales of boys who were raised by animals and eventually rejoined society, because they find the love of their lives. Although these are children movies and should not be taken as academic, most individuals are not well informed about feral children, so they tend to use Disney’s portrayal of feral children and try to apply it to reality. Within these classic childhood movies lies a traumatic reality for some children that are inaccurately represented, such as; In The Jungle Book, wolves raised Mogli, but he socializes with multiple species in the jungle. Wolves are pack animals they stick together, they may have slight interaction with other animals, but surely they would not leave their home for them. He was able to walk bipedally while only occasionally walking on all fours, this has never been true in an animal reared feral child. Animal reared children adopt the motor skills that their caregiver has shown them, so in Mogli’s case he should have solely walked quadrupedally. The last inaccurate representation is the idea that Mogli could form a romantic attachment to a human girl, because he was raised in the wild he has had no interaction with humans, he was not socialized
When her father died she began to refuse food, and developed an unusual set of problems. She lost the feeling in her hands and feet, developed some paralysis, and began to have involuntary spasms. She also had visual hallucinations and tunnel vision. But when specialists were consulted, no physical causes for these problems could be found.
In the case-study provided I was able to examine information about Ann a six year-old girl who is fearful of her classmatess and does not want to play with then. I examined this case from the biopsychosocial perspective and came up with possible causes for Ann’s shy, fearful, anxious behavior around her classmates. Biologically, Ann could be on the Fetal Acholol Spectrum due to her mother drinking during her pregnacy. This could be the cause for Ann’s delay in social development and caused her to be fearful of her classmates. Drawing from the case information Ann was one month premature, which could be a cause of FAS. You would not be able to fully diagnose this because there is not a test for it. But, I would ask Ella Ann’s mother if Ann had a low birth weight, had feeding diffculties, missed milestones, deattachment, and more. Psychology, Ann could be suffering from an anxiety disorder due to
There are many feral children that we know of, and Genie is one of the greatest discussed today. Genie was born in 1957 in Arcadia, California. Almost from the time of birth, Genie wasn't treated very well. There are reports done from different psychologists, police officers, and welfare authorities that all report she was being abused, neglected, and isolated socially from outside communications. Genie was reported to L.A. Child Welfare around 1970.
with the mind of a child, a shapeless face, big pale eyes, sloping shoulders, and big feet
It is most often characterized by difficulty in the child's ability to respond to people, events, and objects. Responses to sensations of light, sound, and feeling may be exaggerated. Delayed speech and language may be associated. Other characteristics include: impairment in ability to make peer friendships, absence of imaginative activity, stereotyped body movements, persistent preoccupation with parts of objects, marked distress over changes in trivial aspects of the environment, unreasonable insistence on following routines in precise detail, a restricted range of interests and a preoccupation with one narrow interest, along with many others.
Born To Be Wild by Drew Fellman is a short documentary about orphaned orangutan in Indonesia and elephants in Kenya. The orphanages were built by two independent organizations with the sole aim to help preserve species, and to help orphans
1. This statement is from a researcher involved in studying cases of feral children: In the sad and mysterious case of __Genie_ we have an instance of developmental deficiency produced, not by a loss of senses, but by deprivation of the power of exercising them.
Savage Girls and Wild Boys by Michael Newton studies children that grew up in the wilderness with animals or who were cut-off from the civilized world as we know it. Multiple ‘wild child’s’ were examined from the early 1700’s to the late 1900’s (Ivan Mishukov). The children Newton went into depth with were Peter the Wild Boy (1725), Memmie Le Blanc (1731), Victor of Aveyron (1797), Kaspar Hauser (early 1800s), and Genie (1970).
She seemed to be stuck in time, for example, the only person she could really remember was her husband who passed about 14 years ago, everyday she waited for this man that was never going to come back. I thought that it was unusual because she had only had it for 8 years so I didn’t understand how she couldn’t remember anybody before that. I wanted to be able to comprehend what was happening in her mind.
This paper will discuss the extreme cases of feral children. Feral children known as wild child, are children who has lived in an isolated environment from human contact from a very young age. This leaves the child vulnerable with little or no experience with the basic needs to socialize or survive in society. This information on feral children allows us to see their point of view on how humans will behave if culture doesn’t exist. These children are normally taken in by animals living in the wilderness. Feral children don’t have to be raised by animals. Therefore, there have been severe cases where parents will confine their children from the world. When parents abandon their child from an early age, this