The document discusses wild and isolated children and the critical age issue in language learning. It provides examples of children like Oxana Malaya, known as the "Ukrainian Dog Girl" who was found living with dogs in 1991 and still struggles with speech, and Sujit Kumar from Fiji who was raised by chickens in a coop and later learned some human behaviors through rehabilitation. The cases demonstrate how early deprivation from human contact and language can negatively impact development, especially language acquisition. The critical period hypothesis suggests there is an optimal age range for language exposure.

1. Wild and isolated children and
critical age issue in language
learning.
By:
Rizqy Kurniasari (12331702)
Liyananda Nur Cholifah (12331695)

2. Definition of wild isolated child
# FERAL means wild or undomesticated.
# A human child who has lived without human
contact from a very young age, and has no
experience of human care , of loving or social
behavior, of human language .
# Several accounts of children raised by wild
animals (found living in the woods).

3. Definition of critical age issue
# May have had human contact but were so
deprived of interaction that they did not
become socialized.
# Most do not learn language and have trouble
with basic motor skills.
# Hard to definitively study due to have nature
of child rearing (or lack thereof.)

4. The factors governing language
learning
The age at which
exposure to
language began.
The extent of any
physical,
psychological, and
social trauma prior to
exposure to language.

5. The case or wild and isolated children and critical age
issue in language learning
Oxana Malaya : The Ukrainian Dog Girl
When first found in 1991 she
could hardly speak. In 2006 at
the age of 23, Oxana Malaya
still resides at a home for the
mentally handicapped, the
Baraboy Clinic in Odessa,
where she helps look after the
cows in the clinic’s farm.

6. Oxana Malaya : The Ukrainian Dog Girl in
language learning
Last reported 2 years back,
she was living in a home
for the mentally ill where
her speech has improved
though had difficulties in
relating to people.
Her doctor, Vladimir Nagorny,
stated that her development
seem to came to a limit and
though they have been trying to
find her a job, she will never be
considered as a normal person.

7. Sujit Kumar: raised with chickens in Fiji.
In April of 1976, Sujit Kumar’s mother committed
suicide. His elderly grandfather, not knowing how to
care for him, confined him to a chicken coop.
Sujit was found one night in 1979 by the side of a
road pecking for food.
He was taken to the Samubala Old
People’sHome in Suva where because of his
disruptive and violent behavior he was frequently
tied to a bed. This occurred for 22 years before Sujit
was put into therapy.

8. A sister in home said: “ Sujit
would mostly hop around like
a chicken , peck at his food,
perch like a chicken and
make noises like a chicken., “
she said .”He would prefer to
roost on the floor to go to
sleep rather than sleep in a
bed.”

9. Sujit Kumar: raised with chickens in Fiji in
language learning.
However, and the start of 2003 a visitor to the
home initiated a rehabilitation program. Altogh
he still can not speak, he is now learning
human behaviour and the ability to
communicate.

10. VICTOR
A wild boy captured in the
woods near the village of Lacaune,
France, in 1797. The boy was taken
by his captors (local peasants),
kicking and struggling, to be
displayed in the village square.
The wild boy managed to
escape, but a year later (1798) he
was caught again in the vicinity of
Lacaune by three hunters as he was
climbing a tree. He was then taken
to a local widow's house, who fed
and clothed him for a week.

11. VICTOR IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

12. Genie
In 1970 a child called Genie was admitted to
a children’s hospital in Los Angeles. She was
13 years old and had spent most of her life
tied to a chair in a small closed room. Her
father was intolerant of any kind of noise and
had beaten the child whenever she made a
sound. There had been no radio or television,
and Genie only other human correct was
with her mother who was forbidden to spend
more than a few minutes with the child to
feed her. Genie had spent her whole life in
state of physical, sensory, social and
emotional deprivation.

13. GENIE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

14. Hellen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was born a
healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama,
on June 27, 1880. Her parents were
Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur
Keller. At the age of 19 months, Helen
became deaf and blind as a result of
an unknown illness, perhaps rubella
or scarlet fever. As Helen grew from
infancy into childhood, she became
wild and unruly.

15. 1.
At the age of 7
introduced to
SAnne Sulivan
Macy
3. Helen learned via
touching speech
articulators and
even learned to
speak,
6. Graduated from
Radcliff and became an
acclaimed lecturer and
writer in service of
handicapped people.
2. Macy’s effort
to teach language
via touching
senses succeeded
5. speech learned
to read and
produce Braille
4. able to produce
somewhat strange

16. CONCLUSSION
Any relationship between Wild and isolated children
and critical age issues for language learning.
For the example is Hellen Keller At the age of 7
introduced to Anne Sulivan Macy, Macy’s effort to teach
language via touching senses succeeded, Helen learned via
touching speech articulators and even learned to speak, able
to produce somewhat strange speech learned to read and
produce Braille and graduated from Radcliff and became an
acclaimed lecturer and writer in service of handicapped
people.
It affected by sone factors there are: Age of expossure
and enxtent of any physical, psychological and social trauma
prior expossure.