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According to the article "Wild Child Speechless After Tortured Life" by Susan James, after "Genie" was rescued, she could not communicate in English despite intensive speech therapy.

a. True
b. False

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The statement from the article is false; Genie did learn a considerable amount of vocabulary after being rescued, despite not mastering grammar.

Step-by-step explanation:

As asked here, According to the article "Wild Child Speechless After Tortured Life" by Susan James, the statement that 'after "Genie" was rescued, she could not communicate in English despite intensive speech therapy' is false. Genie's language abilities improved significantly after she was removed from the tortured and neglectful conditions she lived in for most of her childhood. While Genie never fully mastered the grammatical aspects of language, she did manage to amass a considerable vocabulary.

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