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Hans Asperger was born in Neustiftgasse in the 7th district of Vienna, Austria, on 18 February 1906, [4] and was raised on a farm in Hausbrunn not far from the city. [1] He was the eldest of three sons; his younger brother died shortly after birth. [5][6] As a youth, he joined the Wandering Scholars of the Bund Neuland [7][8] (in the group of ...
Hans Asperger gave a very detailed report of Fritz and his efforts to understand his problems in his case report 'Autistic psychopathy' in childhood. [9] Fritz was a first child of his parents. According to Asperger, his mother was a descendant of "one of the greatest Austrian poets" and she described her family as "in the mad-genius mould."
Am Spiegelgrund was a children's clinic in Vienna during World War II, where 789 patients were murdered under child euthanasia in Nazi Germany. Between 1940 and 1945, the clinic operated as part of the psychiatric hospital Am Steinhof later known as the Otto Wagner Clinic within the Baumgartner Medical Center located in Penzing, the 14th ...
Hans Asperger. Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's syndrome or Asperger's, is a term formerly used to describe a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. [5]
The Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger was born in Vienna in 1906. In 1929, German psychiatrist Erich Rudolf Jaensch (of the University of Marburg) published his book Grundformen menschlichen Seins (Basic forms of human existence). [79] Asperger would later say his autism thinking was influenced by its explanation of schizothyms. [80]
Lorna Wing. Lorna Gladys Wing OBE FRCPsych (7 October 1928 – 6 June 2014) was an English psychiatrist. She was a pioneer in the field of childhood developmental disorders, who advanced understanding of autism worldwide, introduced the term Asperger syndrome in 1976 [1] and was involved in founding the National Autistic Society (NAS) in the UK.
ISBN. 978-1-58333-467-6 (Hardcover) NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity [1] from historic, scientific, and advocacy -based perspectives. Neurotribes was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015, [2][3] and has received wide acclaim from both the ...
The article was created almost two decades before the case reports of Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner, which were published while Sukhareva's pioneering work remained unnoticed. [13] As Sukhareva’s autism research was translated and published in German-language journals within a year of its domestic publication in Russian, there existed no ...