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  • Controversy Regarding Asperger’s Syndrome

    Controversy Regarding Asperger’s Syndrome

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    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…