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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.
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Dec 11, 2023 · The history of autism as a formal diagnosis began in 1911. Swiss psychiatrist Paul Eugen Bleuler coined the term, using it to describe what he claimed to be the childhood version of schizophrenia. Since then, our understanding of autism has evolved, culminating in the current diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Jul 13, 2024 · The history of autism dates back to the early 20th century, when it was first identified by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler. Bleuler used the term "autism" to describe a group of symptoms that he observed in patients with schizophrenia.
Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism.
Autism was first diagnosed in the People's Republic of China in 1982 by Professor Tao Guotai (陶国泰) from the Nanjing Brain Hospital. He presented the case in a Chinese journal. In the late 1980s, he introduced his findings to the global audience in English.
Leo Kanner, an Austrian-American psychiatrist, is widely regarded as the pioneer of autism diagnosis. In 1943, Kanner published a groundbreaking paper introducing the concept of ‘early infantile autism’.
In 1975, Rutter, David Shaffer and Michael Shepherd had published a report for the World Health Organisation which supported the development of a multi-axial system of diagnosis. The first model contained 3 axes, the first being the ‘clinical psychiatric syndrome’, the second the ‘intellectual level’ and the third listing ‘associated ...
