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Hans Asperger
- In 1938, Hans Asperger, a pediatrician at the University of Vienna, described numerous children he observed as “autistic.”
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Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism.
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.
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- First person to be diagnosed as autistic
May 3, 2024 · Donald Gray Triplett. Born: September 8, 1933, Forest, Mississippi, U.S. Died: June 15, 2023, Forest, Mississippi (aged 89) Donald Triplett (born September 8, 1933, Forest, Mississippi, U.S.—died June 15, 2023, Forest, Mississippi) was an American male who was the first person diagnosed with autism.
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Hans Asperger was the first to publish the name autism for a specific condition, and the first to document many of that condition's attributes. The Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger was born in Vienna in 1906.
Dec 11, 2023 · By Vincent Iannelli, MD. Updated on December 11, 2023. Fact checked by James Lacy. Print. The history of autism as a formal diagnosis began in 1911. Swiss psychiatrist Paul Eugen Bleuler coined the term, using it to describe what he claimed to be the childhood version of schizophrenia.
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:
Nov 10, 2018 · Sukhareva’s characterization came nearly two decades before Austrian doctors Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger published what have long been considered to be the first clinical accounts of autism.
