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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 ...
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 ]
As you can plainly see, a Google search for Genie feral child yields 7600 hits. While a Google search yields 6880 hits. Obviously this surname associated with Genie is widely known and disseminated. Wjhonson 06:42, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
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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.
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 ...
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.