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Jun 20, 2023 · He was, effectively, the first child diagnosed with autism. We first wrote about Donald in The Atlantic in 2010 and explored his story in depth in our book and recent PBS documentary, both called...
Donald Gray Triplett (September 8, 1933 – June 15, 2023) was an American banker known for being the first person diagnosed with autism. He was first diagnosed by Leo Kanner in 1943, and was labeled as "Case 1".
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Jan 21, 2016 · Donald Grey Triplett was the first person to be diagnosed with autism. The fulfilling life he has led offers an important lesson for today, John Donvan and Caren Zucker write.
Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism.
Oct 3, 2015 · Leo Kanner, Hans Asperger, and the discovery of autism. Steve Silberman discovered a well-kept secret about autism. In his stunning big book NeuroTribes (big in size at more than 500 pages, and big in vision, spanning the history of autism from the late 19th century to the present day), he imparts the secret, drip-feeding it through a ...
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- 2015
two decades before Austrian doctors Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger published what have long been considered to be the first clinical accounts of autism. At first, Sukhareva used ‘autistic’ in the same way Bleuler did — but as she started to see other children with this trait, she decided to try to characterize it more fully.
The Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders is a popular academic book about autism that was first released in 1987. The first edition was edited by Americans Donald J. Cohen (psychiatrist), Anne M. Donnellan [312] (educational psychologist) and Rhea Paul (speech pathologist).
