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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".
- June 15, 2023 (aged 89), Forest, Mississippi, U.S.
- Donald Gray Triplett, September 8, 1933, Forest, Mississippi, U.S.
- Banker
- First person to be diagnosed as autistic
The Early History of Autism in America. A surprising new historical analysis suggests that a pioneering doctor was examining people with autism before the Civil War
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 ...
- Bonnie Evans
- 10.1177/0952695113484320
- 2013
- Hist Human Sci. 2013 Jul; 26(3): 3-31.
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.
Oct 3, 2015 · As everyone in the autism community knows, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, USA, wrote a seminal article in 1943 in which he described—“for the first time”—11 children in his clinic without the social instinct to orient towards other people, who were mostly focused or even ...
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- 2015
Keywords Autism · Autism spectrum · DSM-IV · DSM-5 · Diagnosis 1.1 A Brief History of Autism Since its initial description in 1943 (Kanner 1943) interest in, and research on, au-tism has increased dramatically. In the 20 years following Kanner’s classic descrip-tion fewer than 50 peer reviewed papers on the topic appeared, but they increased
Sep 20, 2023 · The history of autism can be traced back to the early 20th century, when Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler used the term "autism" to describe a group of symptoms he observed in patients with schizophrenia. Here's a timeline of some key events in the history of autism: 1908: Eugen Bleuler first uses the term "autism."