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  2. Genie (feral child) - Wikipedia

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    Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...

  3. Mockingbird Don't Sing - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Portal:Greater Los Angeles/Selected biography/4 - Wikipedia

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    The Salk Institute, where researchers analyzed the data from the first of several brain exams on Genie. Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of a feral child who was the victim of extraordinarily severe abuse, neglect and social isolation. Her circumstances are recorded prominently in the annals of abnormal child psychology.

  5. Anna (feral child) - Wikipedia

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    Her abuse came to the attention of Los Angeles child welfare authorities on November 4, 1970. [10] Following her discovery, Genie was followed by scientists, physiologists, and linguists. She has lived much longer than Anna and is believed to be 60 or 61 years old (as of 2017), but she has yet to acquire a functional first language.

  6. Talk:Genie (feral child)/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Category:Feral children - Wikipedia

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  8. Feral child - Wikipedia

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    A feral child (also called wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. Such children lack the basics of primary and secondary socialization . [ 1 ]

  9. Talk:Genie (feral child)/Archive 3 - Wikipedia

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    Which is why "Genie is the pseudonym of a feral child who was discovered in Los Angeles on November 4, 1970 after more than a decade of isolation, abuse and neglect. She spent most of her first thirteen and a half years of life locked inside a bedroom, strapped to a child's toilet or bound inside a crib with her arms and legs immobilized.