Leo Kanner

Autism has been known to be a very difficult disease, not only for the child but for the parents as well. Autistic children see the world from a different perspective, it feels disorganized and disorienting for them. They have a lot of developmental problems in personal, social and intellectual functioning. Moreover, they lack proper communication skills, causing them to retreat into themselves. Behaviors like these can also be the reason for a lot of anger tantrums since children become…

I chose to research autism because I have been around many that have been diagnosed with it. Although, I have never researched it in depth other than knowing most symptoms and what I have heard. Since first grade, I have been great friends with a girl who is high functioning autistic. I have also been around some severe autistic children through cadet teaching and childcare. The most interesting information I found from this research is from a girl named Temple Grandin, she is an autistic adult…

Since cultures were uninformed on the condition, some associated it with mythical aspects as well as witchcraft. Psychiatrists like Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger pointed out that autism resulted in the mental aloneness in their patients. This meant that the child locks out everything from the outside world, including the closest people to him. These observations explain why an autistic…

Student Name Ms. Dorris Final Paper Date Discussion on childhood Autism Every family could be affected by Autism. What is Autism? How many types of Autism may be found in the spectrum? How many families are affected? What are the symptoms? And probably most important, how do people get Autism? And is there a cure? This paper will introduce you to Autism, and more importantly explain to you that shots don’t cause Autism, as many would like you to believe. Autism is a brain disorder…

Society Cares too little: For the Mind of an Autistic Child “ It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential”(Hans Asperger quotes at google.com). Autism has been researched on since the 1940’s in which autism was the term scientists used to call any disability. Autism is now a disability expanding and developing worldwide. Children with autism have a mental deficiency where they struggle learning to speak at a normal pace with non disabled people, developing…

Growing up everyone always tells you that you can be whatever you want to be. Most kids choose prestige jobs like Fire Fighter, President of the United States, Teacher, or Doctor; like most young girls I was going to be a veterinarian. I didn’t have the grades nor could I pass a simple math class, my dreams were crushed. From then on my goal was to just get through school and I would deal with choosing my career later. Senior year came around and I had chosen a vocational class at SELF school…

child can born like that?. Autism can 't interfere in to every person do many things in life, no matter what difficulty can be. All children have the opportunity to learn. Autism is part of what is known as autistic spectrum. This was identified by Leo Kanner in 1943 in the John Hopkins Hospital. In the same year the German scientist, Dr. Hans Asperger described a milder form of this disorder we now know as Asperger syndrome. Until the early 1960s very few people who were not doctors,…