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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 ...
When the circumstances of Genie, the primary victim in one of the most severe cases of abuse, neglect and social isolation on record in medical literature, first became known in early November 1970, authorities arranged for her admission to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where doctors determined that at the age of 13 years and 7 months, she had not acquired a first language.
As part of her work with Genie, Curtiss was featured in the 1994 Nova documentary Secret of the Wild Child [17] and the 2003 "Wild Child" episode of the television series Body Shock. [18] She was a script consultant for the movie Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001), and was the only person directly involved in the case to be involved in the film's ...
However, Russ Rymer's book, Genie, An Abused Child's Flight From Silence states and I quote: "Clark's idea of protective custody is described in Susan Curtiss's doctoral dissertation, which was published as a book -- Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day 'Wild Child'-- in 1977 by Academic Press.
Alice Marie Harris (March 6, 1932 – August 6, 1942), known under the pseudonym Anna, was a feral child from Pennsylvania who was raised in isolation. She was abused for being an illegitimate child. From the age of five months to six years, she was kept strapped down in the attic of her home, malnourished and unable to speak or move.
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His first book, Genie, a Scientific Tragedy (1993), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won a Whiting Award. [1] It was translated into six languages and transformed into a NOVA television documentary. His second book, about the American Beach community in Florida, was American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory ...