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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. [1] He was first diagnosed by Leo Kanner in 1943, and was labeled as "Case 1". [2] [3] Triplett was noted for his savant abilities, particularly the ability to name musical notes played on a piano and the ...
- 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
In 1938, Hans Asperger, a pediatrician at the University of Vienna, described numerous children he observed as “autistic.”. Courtesy of Dr Maria Asperger Felder. Billy was 59 years old that ...
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Jan 21, 2016 · 21 January 2016. Triplett family archives. 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 ...
Jun 22, 2023 · Yuval Levental/Flickr/ (CC BY-SA 2.0) Neurology. 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 ...
May 9, 2018 · The ‘refrigerator mother’ concept was disproved in the 1960s to 1970s, as a growing body of research showed that autism has biological underpinnings and is rooted in brain development. The DSM-III, published in 1980, established autism as its own separate diagnosis and described it as a “pervasive developmental disorder” distinct from ...
Sep 20, 2023 · Here's a timeline of some key events in the history of autism: 1908: Eugen Bleuler first uses the term "autism." 1943: Leo Kanner publishes a paper describing a group of children with similar symptoms, coining the term "early infantile autism." 1944: Hans Asperger describes a milder form of autism that later became known as Asperger's syndrome.
Sep 14, 2010 · Donald Gray Triplett, 77, was the first person ever diagnosed with autism. By ABC News. September 14, 2010, 6:44 AM. Sept. 15, 2010 -- In 1951, a Hungarian-born psychologist, mind reader, and ...