Thursday, December 11, 2008

Scientists take what they learn and use it to improve stratagies to teach regualr helthy children basics such as speaking.
It is believed that a human cannot learn languafe after they pass the critical period of language development. Feral children have changed this theory in many ways.
The Critical Period Hypothesis states that the first few years of life constitute the time during which language develops readily and after which language acquisition is much more difficult and ultimately less successful. The critical period hypothesis was proposed by Eric Lenneberg
click here to go to http://www.feralchildren.com/en/language.php

What are feral children

A feral child is a child that has had no human interaction and has lived in complete isolation. Often they live in the wild and sometimes live with animals