Tag: Autism Spectrum
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Final Thoughts on National Autism Awareness Month
From my research, I’ve realized there is one important aspect within each moment of the history of autism – mostly everything the world knows about the disorder came from the efforts of parents advocating for their children. If it wasn’t for a father, so opposed to the claim that parents cause autism, that he devoted his…
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Controversy Regarding Asperger’s Syndrome
A year after Leo Kanner published his findings on autism, Austrian physician Hans Asperger described “a particularly interesting and highly recognizable type of child” in his 1944 article ‘Autistic Psychopathy’ in Childhood. Like Kanner, he presented case studies describing the following four children’s clinical characteristics and commonalities. Fritz V. ‘A highly unusual boy who showed…
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I Dwell in Possibility – 6 Potential Faces of ASD
Retrospective diagnosis is the act of identifying an illness after the death of a person using modern knowledge, methods and disease classifications. Historians and psychiatrists have studied the behavior of the following individuals, using their biographical information, and determined them to be on the spectrum. Albert Einstein (Scientist & Mathematician) Einstein didn’t speak until the…
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