Examples of feral child in the following topics:
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- A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age.
- Peter Pan is a well-known example of a fictional feral child who is raised without adult supervision or assistance.
- A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language.
- Feral children may have experienced severe child abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away.
- A real-life example of a feral child is Danielle Crockett, known as "The Girl in the Window".
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- For example, a child learns to say the word "drink" when she is thirsty; she receives something to drink, which reinforces her use of the word for getting a drink, and thus she will continue to do so.
- The ZPD is a level of development obtained when children engage in social interactions with others; it is the distance between a child's potential to learn and the actual learning that takes place.
- Part of this hypothesis is that if a child is not exposed to a language in the early years of life, he or she will never have full intuitive command of a first language.
- One of the canonical case studies that supporters of the critical-period hypothesis turn to is Genie the "feral child," a young girl born in 1957 who, due to horrible abuse and neglect, never learned a language.
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- Such children are called "feral" or wild.
- Some feral children have been confined by people (usually their own parents); in some cases this child abandonment was due to the parents' rejection of a child's severe intellectual or physical impairment.
- Feral children may have experienced severe child abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away.
- When completely brought up by non-human animals, the feral child exhibits behaviors (within physical limits) almost entirely like those of the particular care-animal, such as its fear of or indifference to humans.
- Feral children lack the basic social skills which are normally learned in the process of socialization.
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- Little Albert: John Watson's study of classical conditioning in a 9-month-old boy named Albert examined whether it was possible to condition an otherwise emotionally stable child to fear a stimulus that most children would not find fearful.
- Genie: The case study of a child who was raised in total isolation and thought of as "feral."
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- Social deprivation, or prevention from culturally normal interaction with society, affects mental health and impairs child development.
- The idea that separation from the female caregiver has profound effects is one with considerable resonance outside the conventional study of child development.
- Feral children provide an example of the effects of severe social deprivation during critical developmental periods.
- Feral children are children who grow up without social interaction.
- In several recorded cases, feral children failed to develop language skills, had only limited social understanding, and could not be rehabilitated.
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- Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child.
- Child abuse is the physical, sexual, or emotional mistreatment or neglect of a child or children.
- Most nations with child-abuse laws consider the deliberate infliction of serious injuries, or actions that place the child at obvious risk of serious injury or death, to be illegal.
- Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation.
- Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child.
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- Child custody laws describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child.
- Child custody and guardianship are legal terms, which are used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent's duty to care for the child.
- In most jurisdictions the issue of which parent the child will reside with is determined in accordance with the best interests of the child standard.
- While the child is with the parent, that parent retains sole authority over the child.
- Physical custody involves the day-to-day care of a child, and establishes where a child will live.
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- Child care involves caring for and supervising a child or children, usually from infancy to age thirteen.
- Child care involves supervising a child or children, usually from infancy to age thirteen, and typically refers to work done by somebody outside the child's immediate family.
- The majority of child care institutions that are available require that child care providers have extensive training in first aid and are CPR certified.
- In families where children live with one or both of their parents, the child care role may also be taken on by the child's extended family.
- The two main types of child care options are center-based care and home-based care.
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- Child rearing is the process of supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child.
- Child rearing is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.
- Parenting refers to aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship.
- These parents are more aware of a child's feelings and capabilities, and support the development of a child's autonomy within reasonable limits.
- With Permissive or Indulgent parenting, a child's freedom and autonomy are valued above all.