The Critical Period Hypothesis: Support and Challenge form encounters with Feral Children by Katharina Dellbrügge

Author:Katharina Dellbrügge [Dellbrügge, Katharina]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Feral, Support, Period, Children, Critical, Hypothesis, Challenge
ISBN: 9783640546572
Publisher: GRIN Publishing
Published: 2010-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

4. Two cases that seem to question the CPH

4.1 Isabelle Case History

This case of severe deprivation actually started with the preceding generation. Isabelle’s mother 4 was a deaf, mute and uneducated woman who had lost the sight of her right eye due to an accident in early childhood (Mason 1942: 295). The fact that she didn’t begin to speak was thought to be the result of a lesion in Broca’s area, also due to the accident. Later on, this diagnosis turned out to be wrong: the accident caused deafness and she could have been educated in an appropriate school (ibid.: 298). She communicated with her family via some simple, self-invented gestures, spent the days doing simple kind of housework and wasn’t allowed to leave the house by herself (ibid.: 295). Therefore it came as a surprise when her family found out that

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