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What You Need To Know About Autism
Definition of Autistic Disorder:
Autism is a life-long disorder that interferes with the ability to understand what is seen, heard, and touched (Turkington, 1999).
Outline
- Introduction
- History
- Diagnosis
- Etiology
- Treatment
- Prognosis
- Society
- Other Links
- Interesting Facts
- References
History
--1943 - Kanner
Introduced the label "Early Infantile Autism." It was not acknowledged before this time as a clinical diagnosis (Frith, 1993). This type of autism is also known as classical autism (Cash, 1999).
--1944 - Asperger
Submitted his thesis called "Autistic Psychopathy" or "Autism." By Remarkable coincidence he described the same type of disturbed child that Kanner did, to whom nobody had paid much attention to before(Frith, 1991).
--1964 - Rimland
He Believed that the central cognitive dysfunction in Autism was an inability to connect new stimuli to remembered experience (Mesibov, Adams, & Klinger, 1997).
--1966 - Rett
Rett's Disorder was distinguished from Autistic Disorder in 1966. It is a subtype of Autism (Harris, Glasberg,& Ricca, 1996).
--1967 - Brask
Found a prevalence of 4.3 per 10,000 for Early Infantile Autism (Hermelin, 1970).
--1980 - DSMIII
Autism first officially described in America (Tanguay, 1998).
Different Historical Views
(Wing, 1991)Relationship between Asperger and Kanner - Similarities in findings - they both accounted for the same choice of name, & the children lacked in interpersonal communication
-Differences in findings - Asperger said children with his syndrome tended to develope gramatical speech even before they could walk, Kanner's syndrome is a much more severe form than autistic psychopathy. Asperger referred to Kanner's syndrome as a near psychosis.
Diagnosis
Etiology
Treatment
Prognosis
Society and Autism
References
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