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Jan 1, 2022 · "Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it.
Dec 20, 2018 · We bring together three recent extensive accounts on autism history and try to establish who was the first to observe, describe, and label the autistic traits as a separate clinical...
Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism.
Feb 23, 2023 · Several mothers of children with autism were particularly strong voices in the early history of autism advocacy, including Dr. Ruth Christ Sullivan who contributed significantly to the above legislation, and became the first elected president of the Autism Society of America in 1968 .
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.
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".
One of the first of these clinics was established in Moscow, where in the early 1920s a young Jewish child psychiatrist treated 11 children — 6 boys and 5 girls — with what she initially called ‘schizoid psychopathy’ and later renamed ‘autistic psychopathy.’
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