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Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism.
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1926: Grunya Sukhareva, a child psychiatrist in Kyiv, Russia, writes about six children with autistic traits in a scientific German psychiatry and neurology journal.
1938: Louise Despert, a psychologist in New York, details 29 cases of childhood schizophrenia, some of whom have traits that resemble today's classification of autism.
1943: Leo Kanner publishes a paper describing 11 patients who were focused on or obsessed with objects and had a “resistance to (unexpected) change.” He later named this condition “infantile autism.” 1944: Nazi-funded, Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger publishes a popularized scientific study on autistic children, a case study describing four chi...
1952:In the first edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), children with autistic traits are labeled as having childhood schizophrenia. 1956:Leon Eisenberg publishes his paper "The Autistic Child in Adolescence," which follows 63 autistic children for nine years and again at 15 y...
1964: Bernard Rimland publishes Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior, challenging the “refrigerator mother” theory and discussing the neurological factors in autism. 1964: Dr. Ole Ivar Lovaas, creator of LGBTQ conversion therapy, begins working on his theory of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy...
1970s: Lorna Wing proposes the concept of autism spectrum disorders. She identifies the “triad of impairment,” which includes three areas: social interaction, communication, and imagination. 1975:The Education for All Handicapped Children Act is enacted to help protect the rights and meet the needs of children with disabilities, most of whom were p...
1980: The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) includes criteria for a diagnosis of infantile autism for the first time.
1990:Autism is included as a disability category in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), making it easier for autistic children to get special education services. 1996: Temple Grandin writes Emergence—Labeled Autistic, a firsthand account of her life with autism and how she became successful in her field. 1998: Andrew Wakefield p...
2003: The Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership(GRASP), an organization run by people with Asperger’s syndrome and autism spectrum disorders, is formed. 2003: Bernard Rimland and Stephen Edelson write the book Recovering Autistic Children. 2006: Ari Ne'eman establishes the Autistic Self Advocacy Network(ASAN). 2006: Dora Raymaker and Ch...
2010: Andrew Wakefield loses his medical license and is barred from practicing medicine, following the retraction of his autism paper. 2013:The DSM-5 combines autism, Asperger’s, and childhood disintegrative disorder into autism spectrum disorder. 2014: The president signs the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support (C...
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.
Mar 22, 2024 · Every state in the US has different rules according to which it is decided who diagnoses autism; in Massachusetts, any MD or psychologist can make a diagnosis. One of the barriers in...
In 1943, Dr. Leo Kanner often considered the father of child psychiatry, described in great detail 11 children who shared very similar symptoms and behaviors [7]. This article is considered by many to be the first official recognition of autism in a science-based journal.
For example, Michael Rutter, a leading child-psychiatric researcher from the UK’s Maudsley Hospital who conducted the first-ever genetic study of autism, claimed in 1972 that ‘the autistic child has a deficiency of fantasy rather than an excess’ ( Rutter, 1972: 327).
Oct 21, 2014 · The word "autism" was first used in 1908 by Dr. Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist. It wasn't used as a diagnosis; instead it described a set of symptoms, including self-absorbtion, seen in a...
