The Case of Genie Genie was discovered when she was 13 years old. She had been kept in a small room and not spoken to since she was an infant. She could not stand erect and could not speak, she could only whimper. Naturally she attracted the attention of many psychologists and linguists who were keen to study her. She was given the Vineland Social Maturity Scale and the Preschool Attainment Record, on which she scored as low as a normal one year old. Her linguistic abilities were very poor: she could only understand her own name and the word ‘sorry’. She was unsocialised, she did not know how to chew, salivated constantly and was not toilet trained.