Case Study: Genie

When a mother avoids an abusive relationship for welfare assistance, she will take her 13-year-old daughter. She is known as "Elf" and is interested in social workers at the welfare office. She was fascinated by Genie's posture, size, and posture. Strangely, this worker thought that Ginny could probably be the unreported case of autism 6 to 7 years old (Rymer 1993). As a result, the staff informed her boss in contact with the police. When Genie was first brought to the hospital for examination, she weighed only 59 pounds.

Genie's case study has many advantages. A case study is a detailed analysis of a person. It gives us details, we can not approach any theory or speculation. In Genie's case study, psychologists will personally understand the impact on children unless they master language at an important time. Before genie was discovered, there was a theory of language development, but there was no real evidence. Chomsky, Skinner, Lenneberg have reasonable logic theory, but there is no evidence to support them. Now, we can conclude that Lenneberg has the best theory as Genie got a telegraphic address. Case studies provide a lot of information, but they have drawbacks. You can explain that person and that person with every observation and any information you learned from the case study. Case studies can not be generalized or applied to others. There is no evidence that all children are developing just like Ginny.

One of the greatest benefits of case studies is that researchers will be able to investigate what is difficult to reproduce in the lab. For example, in Genie's case study, researchers can study whether they can teach languages ​​after an important period of missing language development. In the case of Genie, her terrible cruelty prevented her from learning that language at the point of her development. Although this is obviously not a moral copy for the researcher, Genie's case study gives researchers the opportunity to study phenomena that otherwise would be impossible.

The most rigorous work on the silence of isolated children is the "Elves" girl in Los Angeles who has been abused by my father for many years in the room. Her discovery in 1970 is a tragic incident that lets you learn more about language development neuroscience and what happens to the brain and what they miss the world. Sanitcher is probably disturbing because he exposes the instability of the distinction between animals and humans. After leaving home, cars, shower, and people for several years, we may be more like home dogs than human family. Several pictures of Sanichar are still showing wild eyes, his body twisted as though he did not understand how to put it. The figure wearing his clothes is even more amazing - the trap of civilization expands his wildliness rather than hiding it