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  1. Mar 18, 2024 · A Genie Wiley documentary was made in 1997 called "Secrets of the Wild Child." In it, Susan Curtiss, PhD, a linguist and researcher who worked with Genie, explained that the name Genie was used in case files to protect the girl's identity and privacy. The case name is Genie.

  2. Coincidentally, the François Truffaut film The Wild Child, which chronicled the life of Victor of Aveyron in the years immediately after his discovery and the efforts of Jean Marc Gaspard Itard to teach him language and integrate him into society, also premiered in the United States only a week after Genie's rescue. It was a major success, and ...

  3. Jul 14, 2016 · Starved, tortured, forgotten: Genie, the feral child who left a mark on researchers. More than four decades after she appeared in a Los Angeles County welfare office, her fate is unclear – but...

  4. Feb 23, 2024 · The story of Genie Wiley the Feral Child sounds like the stuff of fairytales: An unwanted, mistreated child survives brutal imprisonment at the hands of a savage ogre and is rediscovered and reintroduced to the world in an impossibly youthful state. Unfortunately for Wiley, hers is a dark, real-life tale with no happy ending.

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  5. Apr 14, 2024 · Genie (born April 18, 1957, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) American child raised in social isolation and subject to severe abuse and neglect prior to being discovered by a social worker in 1970. The child, called Genie by scientists to protect her identity, was physically underdeveloped, incontinent, barely able to walk, and unable to speak ...

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  7. Jul 10, 2017 · The Feral Child Nicknamed Genie. Sad case of child abuse sheds light on language production versus comprehension. Posted July 10, 2017 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader. Source: Wikimedia Commons....

  8. Sep 13, 2023 · Instead of Susan Wiley, the “Wild Child” became known as “Genie.” Studies on Language Acquisition. One distinct feature of feral children is that they never develop a first language. Genie could only understand a handful of words when she first examined at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Her ability to speak was limited further.

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