Geniie The Wild Child Summary

Susan Wiley, or most commonly known as Genie the Wild Child was born on the 18th of April 1957. She was the fourth child of Clark and Irene Wiley and was one of two children that survived childhood. Her parents were married in 1944 Clark was 20 years his wife’s senior and their marriage was riddled with domestic violence. Their first two children were both suspiciously killed before their first birthday. It was reported that Clark Wiley extremely disliked children and was very mentally unstable. The third of the Wiley children John lived with Clarks mother Pearl, when she was killed in a hit and run accident Clark held his son responsible which only added to his fragile mental health.

The lives of children are greatly influenced by the environment they grow up in, and the people they come in contact with. For years, psychologists, researchers, and social workers have studied children, and why they do what they do. All have developed many different perspectives on how to view social problems and the development of individuals.

Children with learning difficulties such as dyslexia, or autism, may need more support in building relationships both with adults and with other children. They are likely to be less confident in their own abilities and are more likely to be introverts. On the other hand, children with certain medical conditions may be extroverted and need additional help to build the right sort of communication and relationship skills with others.

The TLC documentary Wild Child; the Story of Feral Children is a documentary that tells the few of many stories of children that have turned to a feral lifestyle due to parental negligence. Feral, meaning undomesticated, is the used term to describe these children because of the actions they exhibit. The accounts in this documentary range from a young girl who “was raised with the wolves” per say, but instead with her dog, to a little boy who was abandoned in a Ukrainian loft and provided the town strays with food and shelter in return for protection from them and other strays. In some of the cases detailed in this video, these children were far too old by the time they were discovered and missed an extremely crucial time frame in which

Another thing that surprised me during this child study was the gap of social development in the students in Kayson’s first-grade class. During my observation, I got to see both sides of the spectrum in terms of proper social behavior. In the lunchroom, I observed the students at

Social competency can be defined as skills related to interaction with others (peers, family, authority figures, nonfamiliar speakers, etc.) both verbally and nonverbally. This may be due in part to the affect on facial expressions (Geirdal, Overland, Heimdal, Storhaug, Asten & Akre, 2013, p. 2880). This may also be due to the significant amount of time that children with TCS (individuals whose phenotypic symptoms are severe enough to be noticed as neonates, infants, and young children) spend in hospitals/away from peers in natural contexts. This lack of experience affects language, and language is associated with both theory of mind and social competency, as they are both in-turn also associated with language. Each entity is interconnected with one another. Language age is associated with social competency and children with hearing loss often have language delays. Furthermore, social competency is likely affected by the inability to maintain peer relationships due to ostracization from peers, ostracization that may be due to either hearing loss and/or physical differences. Not to mention, the speech-hearing and physical disabilities are likely to affect self-esteem, which will negatively influence participation and

I was surprised to learn about our documentary assignment yesterday. Watching documentaries is one of my favorite things to do, so naturally, I’m struggling with choosing which documentary to write my essay on. Recently, aside from the documentary I mentioned last week, I also had the opportunity to watch one of the most widely known, award-winning documentaries regarding child language development, Secret of the Wild Child.

Speech, language and communication difficulties can have a profound and lasting effect on children’s lives and development. These can affect their ability to communicate and interact with others. The impact of these difficulties will vary depending on the severity of the problems, the support they receive, the demands of the child’s environment

During our lives, serval blissful, traumatic, culture event that established the transformations during cognitive, social, physical, and characteristic changes in our lives from the time of birth through our death. A person’s existence is shaped and molded by the experiences that have set us physically and mentality. The interview conducted for this project for an understanding of, Mrs. Candi Jones, is a mother, daughter, and sister. She was the middle child of in a physically disable household where father and sister hearing-impaired; a mother who is deaf. They are a mixture of a sibling through birth, adoption, and foster. During the interview with Ms. Jones, she discusses experienced numerous events in her life that play a major influenced

Life at Native Residential Schools In the 1989 movie, “Where The Spirit Lives”, the Canadian Government appeared to be an innocent, accepting and understanding group of people. However, history proves otherwise. Between the years of 1840 and 1996, Native children lost their identity and culture due to residential schools. Native children were taken from their homes, forced to change their culture through drastic means, and taught to support a different religion.

Feral children are humans that have lived away from human contact in as early as from immediately they are born. These children have little experience of human care

This style is also more likely to be the recipient of abuse. The fearful style also has an unlovable presentation of self and can show itself as either the perpetrator or recipient in partner violence. I believe that Jessica’s childhood directly impacted her inability to recognize her need to self-protect and understand that she does not “deserve” this type of behavior from her current boyfriend. She cannot recognize this because she feels she is undeserving, unlovable and “bad.” If Jessica had a secure attachment to her caregivers as a child, she would have the foundation for optimal mental health and resilience which is a protective factor against the development of trauma (Solomon & Siegel, 2003).

In the documentary, “Secret of the Wild Child,” it reveals the important case of Genie, a young girl who suffered severe abuse and was deprived of linguistic stimulation. She was discovered by a case worker at the age of 13 and was noted to be extremely underdeveloped for her age. Once physicians and psychologists discovered she had not been able to learn a language, research underwent to test whether or not there is a critical period for language acquisition. However, ethical and moral issues arose of how the psychologists treated her, claiming they were using her as a test subject for experimental results and not treating her as a human being. Regardless of the endless disputes, Genie’s case has benefited the world of psychology in understanding human development.

The child I observed was a seven-year-old girl in Year 2 who sat on the second highest ability table in a mixed class. While not in school, she lived a substantial distance away meaning she travelled to and from school by car and was often the first child to arrive in the morning and the last to leave in the afternoon. I will focus on the social and emotional development of this child who, from now onwards, will be referred to as C.

The definition of the word feral children is undomesticated children. It has been a proven case that young children cannot survive on their own in the wild they are merely adopted by animals that choose to love them and want to help the children and teach them their way of life. An animal can sense when they’re in danger but when these children pose no threat all they want is devotion, love, protection they didn’t receive from the parents or guardians that abounded them.