CDS Case Studies Flashcards
Jim: The Son of Deaf Parents
Jim had little contact with adults to interact with due to his parents being deaf, the only verbal contact he had was with a television and radio.
He grew up with incorrect syntax and was under the expected rate for his age group
This conveys how children need interaction in order to lean language, this is also supported by the Genie Case Study.
The Interactional Theory is put forwards by Bruner.
Kellogg’s experiment
Nurture is the most influential.
Brought an ape into family home, to see if it could learn alongside his son.
Turns out the chimp was just as influential on his, who had begun to make animalistic noises.
Children are extremely susceptible to influence at a young age.
Oxana Malaya
Malaya was what is classed as a ‘Feral Child’ due to the fact that she suffered extreme neglect and grew up with a family of dogs rather than humans.
Oxana conveyed dog like behaviours such as barking etc, however because she had been ‘thrown out’ when she was 3 years of age she could still speak a small amount of language.
She could build simple sentences, but her progression became stagnant.
She still progressed further than Genie Wiley, due to being exposed to living with other people up to age 3.
Genie Wiley
Genie was discovered when she was 13 years old after years of abuse and neglect from her parents. She was discovered tied to a child’s potty, in a small, dark and confined room.
Over a few months she made rapid progress learning hundreds of words however that development was soon shunted as she could speak the words however she could string together a grammatically correct sentence.
She was cognitively deficient in the ‘grammar region’ due to trauma
