It could be argued that the effects of privation are reversible if good quality care is given?

This case study would suggest problems with the development of severe privation, however it could be said that the age at which she was rehabilitated was also a major cause of her poor progress. There is also evidence that she was progressing until she was abused again which would suggest that it was the abuse and not the privation which caused her lack of development, also it was said that she could have been retarded at birth.

However the case study of two children in Czechoslovakia gives a vastly different set of results. Twin boys were locked in their basement from the age of 2 to the age of 7 when they were found and rescued. They were placed in a school for children with severe learning disabilities and adopted by a caring family both boys began to develop well, with their linguistic skills reaching the level of their peers by age 11 and their IQs being normal by the age of 15. Both are reported to have gone on to study electronics and are now married with stable relationships with their families. They developed exponentially better when rehabilitated. Many theories have been suggested for why this may be, form the fact that both boys were together for the duration of their isolation and so were able to form bonds so they may not have been privation. There is a significant difference in age when discovered and time spent in isolation between the studies which could have an effect on whether someone could be rehabilitated with just good quality care.