Feral Children

Children who could not speak, they bit, scratched, growled, and walked on all fours.

They drank by lapping water, ate grass, tore ravenously at raw meat, and showed insenstivity to cold and pain

Isolated Children

* Language is the key to human development.

*Without language there can be no culture-no shared way of life--and culture is the key to what people become

Instituitional Children

* Children reared in orphanges often had difficutly establishing close bonds with others---and they tend to have low I.Q's .

*Skeels- provides thsi account of a good orphanage in Iowa during the 1930's.

*The absence of stimulating social interactions was the problem, not some biological incapacity on the part of the children.