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A second edition (retitled All Cats have Autism) was released in 2020. She also wrote other books about autism and related conditions. 2007 also saw the publishing of The Reason I Jump, a bestselling memoir attributed to Naoki Higashida, a Japanese 13-year-old boy with autism. It was released in English in 2013, and has been translated into ...
A surprising new historical analysis suggests that a pioneering doctor was examining people with autism before the Civil War. John Donvan and Caren Zucker. January 2016. In 1938, Hans Asperger, a ...
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1926: Grunya Sukhareva, a child psychiatrist in Kyiv, Russia, writes about six children with autistic traits in a scientific German psychiatry and neurology journal.
1938: Louise Despert, a psychologist in New York, details 29 cases of childhood schizophrenia, some of whom have traits that resemble today's classification of autism.
1943: Leo Kanner publishes a paper describing 11 patients who were focused on or obsessed with objects and had a “resistance to (unexpected) change.” He later named this condition “infantile autism.” 1944: Nazi-funded, Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger publishes a popularized scientific study on autistic children, a case study describing four chi...
1952:In the first edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), children with autistic traits are labeled as having childhood schizophrenia. 1956:Leon Eisenberg publishes his paper "The Autistic Child in Adolescence," which follows 63 autistic children for nine years and again at 15 y...
1964: Bernard Rimland publishes Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior, challenging the “refrigerator mother” theory and discussing the neurological factors in autism. 1964: Dr. Ole Ivar Lovaas, creator of LGBTQ conversion therapy, begins working on his theory of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy...
1970s: Lorna Wing proposes the concept of autism spectrum disorders. She identifies the “triad of impairment,” which includes three areas: social interaction, communication, and imagination. 1975:The Education for All Handicapped Children Act is enacted to help protect the rights and meet the needs of children with disabilities, most of whom were p...
1980: The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) includes criteria for a diagnosis of infantile autism for the first time.
1990:Autism is included as a disability category in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), making it easier for autistic children to get special education services. 1996: Temple Grandin writes Emergence—Labeled Autistic, a firsthand account of her life with autism and how she became successful in her field. 1998: Andrew Wakefield p...
2003: The Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership(GRASP), an organization run by people with Asperger’s syndrome and autism spectrum disorders, is formed. 2003: Bernard Rimland and Stephen Edelson write the book Recovering Autistic Children. 2006: Ari Ne'eman establishes the Autistic Self Advocacy Network(ASAN). 2006: Dora Raymaker and Ch...
2010: Andrew Wakefield loses his medical license and is barred from practicing medicine, following the retraction of his autism paper. 2013:The DSM-5 combines autism, Asperger’s, and childhood disintegrative disorder into autism spectrum disorder. 2014: The president signs the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support (C...
Historical Perspective. There has been tremendous progress made in the field of autism over the last six decades. While it was once a syndrome that was rarely discussed in public, we find information about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) all around us today — on television and radio, websites and internet searches, public service ...
May 8, 2023 · 1944: Hans Asperger, a pediatrician at the University of Vienna, described a similar group of symptoms and coined the term “autistic psychopathy.”. Asperger was particularly interested in high-functioning individuals who showed social deficits. 1967: Kanner and others theorized that autism stemmed from poor parenting in a child’s early years.
The Autism Research Institute plans to celebrate its fifty-fifth anniversary this year by opening a museum dedicated to the history of autism in the fall of 2022. The museum will include exhibits, artifacts, little-known but important facts about autism, and original artworks.
Although autism was not formally recognized until the twentieth century, examples of probable autism are found earlier. For example, Martin Luther (1483–1546), through his note taker Mathesius, has a story about a 12-year-old boy with features of severe autism.8 Perhaps the first well-documented case of autism was that of Hugh Blair of
