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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
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 for...
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John Donvan and Caren Zucker. January 2016. In 1938, Hans Asperger, a pediatrician at the University of Vienna, described numerous children he observed as “autistic.” Courtesy of Dr Maria...
Dec 13, 2022 · It includes a portrait of the first person ever diagnosed with autism in the US, a man named Don Triplett, who still lives in the small town in Mississippi where he was raised. Sid Salter:
May 9, 2018 · Why was autism initially considered a psychiatric condition? 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 ...
Sep 14, 2010 · Autism's First Child. Donald Gray Triplett, 77, was the first person ever diagnosed with autism. Sept. 15, 2010 -- In 1951, a Hungarian-born psychologist, mind reader, and hypnotist named Franz ...
Jun 20, 2023 · In 1943, he was the boy identified only as “Case 1, Donald T” in the set of case histories that formed the foundation for the diagnosis of autism. He was, effectively, the first child ...
