Feral child grown up

Here's a recent article on a Ukrainian feral child now back in "civilization" and in her 20s. She was apparently raised by a pack of dogs.

Feral children are always interesting to linguists because there is the question of language input, age, and the ability to acquire language. What interests me is the suspicion that the drive for affiliation and conspecific interaction is so high that language will be acquired to some degree to support affiliation. Just as Harlow's neglected monkeys who were really bad mothers when they grew up if they had a persistent offspring could learn how to display maternal behavior. it may never be too late to learn something. It may not be possible to have "normal" use of language, but it appears that Miss Malaya has indeed a working set of linguistic tools at her disposal even if it isn't the full complement.