Genei Genie Case Summary

Genie is socially, cognitively and physically developmentally delayed. Due to her severe isolation she has never learned to vocalize. Although she can visualize it is as if she has no sight due to the severe confinement she experienced. She displays physical oddities including walking like a bunny and spitting, due to her incapability to chew. For these ten years of lonely imprisonment, Genie lived a severely malnourished lifestyle. Improper meals were forced into her body prohibiting Genie from cognitive and physical growth. Abused and unloved, this tragic and strange case illustrates the extreme importance of critical and sensitive periods. The critical and sensitive periods indicate the ideal time frame for language and motor development, after which further development becomes more difficult and effortful to acquire.
So, because of the above reasons, nature and nurture of the feral children is illustrated as Human beings need nurture in order to develop their full potential. Nature happens organically but nurture is how humans develop their personality, behavior and intelligence. Humans are hardwired by nature and have the capability to develop fully but are restricted if proper nurture is not given. The time and attention that is essential for proper development was absent for most of Genies