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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.56,0:00:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to talk about Jeannie because the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.24,0:00:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really awful, terrifying things that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.72,0:00:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happened to that poor little girl taught
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.72,0:00:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,us so incredibly much about
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.28,0:00:11.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language development in humans. So
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.36,0:00:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jeannie was a little girl born to a very
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.08,0:00:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unwell family. She was the fourth
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.04,0:00:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,child, but only the second living.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.32,0:00:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So her mother was legally blind
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.84,0:00:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from neurological damage, and her father
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.16,0:00:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a lot of mental issues. He.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.36,0:00:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Didn't like noise. He didn't like
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.08,0:00:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hearing noise. So when the couple had
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.08,0:00:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their first child and it cried, he put it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.76,0:00:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the trash and it died of pneumonia at
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.20,0:00:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10 weeks old. This sets the stage
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.60,0:00:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the life that Ginny would lead. She
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.24,0:00:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has an older brother and then another
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.36,0:00:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,child that died of some kind of blood
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.32,0:00:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incapability at birth. But the older
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.60,0:00:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brother still survived and he was lucky
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.60,0:00:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because his grandmother took him for a
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.20,0:00:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little while. And
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.12,0:01:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeah, that is probably what saved his
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.68,0:01:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life, even though he was eventually given
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.16,0:01:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back to his family. Now the father was
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.60,0:01:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,super abusive. Beat his wife, beat his
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.12,0:01:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,son, beat his his daughter Jeannie. Beat
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.72,0:01:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them all. But when Jeannie was about 1
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.92,0:01:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1/2 years old, her father started to get
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.60,0:01:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incredibly unhinged and he
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.08,0:01:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started locking Jeannie in a dark
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.72,0:01:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,room all day, strapping her in a
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.56,0:01:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,straight jacket to a child toilet
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.76,0:01:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the entire day. He would only feed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.92,0:01:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her baby purees and baby cereal and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.16,0:01:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things like that, and would do so
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.56,0:01:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intermittently. She was very
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.76,0:01:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,malnourished. And then at night he
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.72,0:01:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would take her off the child's toilet and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.28,0:01:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strap her to a sleeping bag in a cot with
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.88,0:01:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a metal grate over the top. He didn't
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.12,0:01:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allow anyone to make noises
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.12,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the house, so no one ever spoke
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Jeannie. She never heard any
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.20,0:01:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,linguistic input. She never heard
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.12,0:01:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything. And if she made noises, she was
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.04,0:01:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beaten viciously eventually. At the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.96,0:02:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,age of 13 1/2, after being locked in a
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.72,0:02:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,room for 12 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.36,0:02:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jeannie's mother was finally able to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.48,0:02:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leave the house with her child, and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.12,0:02:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,social services figured out that there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.52,0:02:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was something up and they rescued
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.64,0:02:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jeannie. By the time doctors got to her,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.48,0:02:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they tried to help her learn language,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.12,0:02:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and unfortunately it was near
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.68,0:02:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,impossible to get Jeannie to learn
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.16,0:02:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language the way that you and I speak it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.20,0:02:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way that a child speaks it. She
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.16,0:02:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never quite acquired any kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.56,0:02:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sophisticated language. She can say a
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.28,0:02:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couple of words, but not many, and she
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.92,0:02:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can't put them together in a very formal
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.64,0:02:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sentence. What this taught
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.40,0:02:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,us, what Jeannie and this horrible
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.04,0:02:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experience taught us, was that there is a
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.40,0:02:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,critical period of acquisition for
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.40,0:02:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language where a child's brain is
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.88,0:02:52.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open to the reception of language, but if
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.92,0:02:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't get it, the child will never
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.44,0:02:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learn. Formal language in their life. So
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.16,0:03:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there you have it, folks. Children
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.12,0:03:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,require linguistic input, language,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.08,0:03:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone to talk to them before the age
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.08,0:03:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of seven at the very latest. But
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.04,0:03:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those early years are incredibly crucial.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.36,0:03:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the best way to teach your child
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.68,0:03:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language is to speak to them, is to have
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.32,0:03:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a conversation with them, even if you
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.88,0:03:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't think they understand, and even if
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.92,0:03:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their response is to you is babble.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.72,0:03:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do Genie a favour and talk to your kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.48,0:03:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much as you can, all the time.