Leo Kanner

communicate. (Sacks, 1995, p. 249) Autism is a lifelong developmental disorder which displays in various degrees of challenges thought a lifetime (NAS, 2017). Sacks views of autism evolve quite quickly as he discusses characteristics of Kanner’s autism (Kanner, 1943), with the focus of attention on ‘Asperger’s syndrome’. He delineates the differences of Asperger’s syndrome seen as high functioning autism, with some displaying savant abilities. (Sacks, 1995, p. 250). Sacks understanding of autism…

parents, notably mothers of children with autism. Leo Kanner believed that a child’s inability to bond or connect within their environment was a result of limited affection, coldness, and solidarity displayed by the parents. Bettelheim facilitated this theory that children with autism were similar to “prisoners in concentration camps and parents were portrayed as guards” (Zager, Wehmeyer & Simpson, 2012, p. 4) asserting parental power and control. Kanner later rejected his theory and a shift…

In her autobiography, Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism, Temple Grandin shares her candid experience with autism. Readers are able to gain a clearer understanding as to what life is like for someone living with the disability. As well as personal stories from her own life, her nonfictional prose piece contains factual information about autism. However, in the section on education, Grandin does not take the opportunity to write on the findings of professional educators. She feels strongly…

The first recorded case of autism came later in 1943 when a child psychiatrist, Leo Kanner, “published a paper describing 11 children who were highly intelligent but displayed ‘a powerful desire for aloneness' and ‘an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness’. He later names their condition ‘early infantile autism’” (Source 2). (b)…

necessary for proper bone health. Rickets can be a result of improper bone health. With that being said, autism and rickets are both diseases that cause problems within the body. Autism Spectrum Disorder was first recognized as a disorder in 1943 by Leo Kanner, a child's psychiatrist. However, Eugen Bleuler was the first…

any better off with all of these interventions. Subsequently, having given this some thought over the week, I came across an article about Donald Grey Triplett who was the first boy diagnosed as autistic in the 1940’s by Baltimore Psychiatrist Leo Kanner. Here we see a typical example of how the Medical…

or any playmate. He seems almost to draw into his shell and live within himself. He wandered about smiling, making stereotyped movements with his fingers, crossing them about in the air. Words to him had a specifically literal, inflexible meaning” (Kanner, 1943). This is one of the first reports that vividly portrays what now is known as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and one of the first reports that shaped many stereotypical views towards…

of three, impairing a child’s aptitude to communicate and relate. The first study was recorded in 1943, when Leo Kanner realized that some children were sluggishly slow in learning new concepts. This did not fit with the pattern of emotionally disturbed children and thus a completely unrelated issue. Hans Asperger made his own inquiries and observations, working independently from Leo. His inroads into the study are the reason for the naming of Asperger’s syndrome, a type of autism where the…

“Autism is a disorder characterized by a lack of social engagement impaired communications skills and the presence of repetitive behaviors that can impair a child’s ability to make friends, bond with family members and express wants and needs”(Bruey, 2004). Before Autism was named, our ancestors did not know what it was. Children were locked up in the house or put away in institutions and label it as being mentally retarded.” Eugene Bleuler a Swiss psychiatrist, was the first to use the term in…

Do we as humans realize just how vulnerable we are? How about those with families that participate in school functions and leisure activities after school? Do they too realize how bless they are with that society considers them to be a “normal” family? But do families that may have an autistic family member realize just how lucky they are, they too have been blessed. A quote from Temple Gradin, an animal behavior expert and author of The Autistic Brain states, “I am different, not less.” To…