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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.
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Jun 24, 2023 · Donald Triplett, first person diagnosed with autism, 1933-2023. ‘Case 1’ in the study of the condition, he advanced understanding of it, while living a full and quiet life.
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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".
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 ...
Sep 14, 2010 · What then? Meet Donald Gray Triplett, 77, of Forest, Mississippi. He was the first person ever diagnosed with autism. And his long, happy, surprising life may hold some answers.
Oct 3, 2015 · As everyone in the autism community knows, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, USA, wrote a seminal article in 1943 in which he described—“for the first time”—11 children in his clinic without the social instinct to orient towards other people, who were mostly focused or even obsessed wi...
