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Asperger identified children who had a. below average intelligence and a tendency toward violent, psychotic behavior. b. average intelligence but channeled their intellectual pursuits into obsessive preoccupation in narrow areas.
In 1944, Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger identified four children with a specific pattern of behavior and abilities characterized by a lack of empathy, little ability to form friendships,...
Hans Asperger identified autism as a spectrum of disorders in the 1930s, but his work was ignored for decades because he went on to work under the Nazis. Research and treatment suffered as a...
Austrian physician Hans Asperger is famous for giving his name to Asperger syndrome, which was listed in the DSM in 1994 as one of autism’s four subcategories. (It was replaced in 2013 by the broader, single diagnosis, Autism Spectrum Disorder).
This makes him the first person in history to be identified as having Asperger's Syndrome. Fritz displayed many behavioral problems in childhood and acted out at school but he had a strong interest in mathematics and astronomy , particularly the theories of Isaac Newton .
In 1943, a child psychiatrist named Leo Kanner published a monograph outlining a curious set of behaviors he noticed in 11 children at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. A year later, a...
The entry of autism and Asperger syndrome (AS) into the history of psychopathology was marked by extraordinary coincidences. Both disorders were first described by Kanner (1943) and Asperger (1944), respectively.
But just 1 year later, paediatrician Hans Asperger, at the University of Vienna in Austria, wrote an article describing a group of children in his clinic who shared many of the same features. Kanner's paper became highly cited and high profile, whereas Asperger's article went almost unnoticed.
Several studies have identified children who are most likely to lose their ASD diagnosis, including children with higher IQs (>70), early communication and language abilities (Luyster et al., 2007), and those who have received earlier and more extensive interventions (e.g., Lovaas, 1987; Orinstein et al., 2014).
In the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began carefully tracking prevalence rates through the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. Today, the CDC reports that one 1 in 68 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).