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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. [1] [2] [3] When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked room. During this ...
Mockingbird Don't Sing is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child. [1] The film is told from the point of view of Susan Curtiss (whose fictitious name is Sandra Tannen), a professor of linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles. Although the film is based on a true story, all of the ...
Genie was the last, and second surviving, of four children of parents living in Arcadia, California, and was born in 1957 without any noted complications at a normal weight and size; the following day she showed signs of Rh incompatibility and required a blood transfusion, but had no sequelae and was otherwise described as healthy. Her mother ...
Genie (1970) is the pseudonym given to a feral girl born in 1957 in Los Angeles. Confined to one room without external stimulation of any kind, Genie was strapped to a child's toilet and restrained in a makeshift harness for up to 13 hours per day and immobilized in a crib overnight.
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Many people were involved in Genie’s case including social workers, psychologists, and linguists. In May 1971, Susan Curtiss, alongside a team of researchers, began researching Genie. When Genie was admitted to the hospital, at the age of 13 years and 7 months, doctors concluded that she had not acquired a first language. The research team ...
Another case Anna is commonly compared to is Genie. While growing up, her father became convinced that she was severely intellectually disabled. By the time she was approximately 20 months old, this belief of his caused him to keep her as socially isolated as possible until she was found by welfare workers at 13 years and 7 months old.
In the case of Genie, a girl who had been locked in her house for 13 years and rendered unable to speak, he successfully defended Genie's mother in court on grounds that she was forced into acquiescence by an abusive husband. [1] He was a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney from 1959 to 1970. [2] [3]