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Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism.
Donald Gray Triplett (September 8, 1933 – June 15, 2023) was an American banker known for being the first person diagnosed with autism. [1] . He was first diagnosed by Leo Kanner in 1943, and was labeled as "Case 1".
- June 15, 2023 (aged 89), Forest, Mississippi, U.S.
- Donald Gray Triplett, September 8, 1933, Forest, Mississippi, U.S.
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- First person to be diagnosed as autistic
Jan 21, 2016 · The scholarly paper which first put autism on the map as a recognisable diagnosis listed Donald as "Case 1" among 11 children who - studied by Baltimore psychiatrist Leo Kanner - crystallised...
Donald Triplett (born September 8, 1933, Forest, Mississippi, U.S.—died June 15, 2023, Forest, Mississippi) American male who was the first person diagnosed with autism. Triplett was the eldest son of an affluent family; his mother’s family had founded the local bank in Forest, Mississippi, and his father was an attorney.
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May 9, 2018 · When Leo Kanner, an Austrian-American psychiatrist and physician, first described autism in 1943, he wrote about children with “extreme autistic aloneness,” “delayed echolalia” and an “anxiously obsessive desire for the maintenance of sameness.” He also noted that the children were often intelligent and some had extraordinary memory.
Jun 22, 2023 · Donald Triplett, who was the first person to be diagnosed with autism, died last week in his hometown of Forest, Mississippi, at age 89. The cause of death was cancer, according to The New York...
Jun 22, 2023 · In 1943, Donald Triplett was the first-ever person to be formally diagnosed with autism. He died last week at the age of 89. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Triplett's diagnosis was the beginning of ...
