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Treatments for autism are based in psychoanalysis
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Leo Kanner published "Autistic Disorders of Affective Contact" and uses the term "infantile autism" Coined the phrase "refrigerator mother"
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Hans Asperger used the term autism to describe children in Vienna who lacked an understanding of social cues and displayed repetitive behaviors but had more linguistic capabilities than those described by Kanner.
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Bottleheim grabbed onto Kanner's term "refrigerator mothers" and based his treatment on it. He separated children from their parents and presecribed psychoanalytic treatment for the mothers
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BF Skinner publishes "Verbal Behavior" which becomes basis for some autism interventions (especially Carbone)
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During the 1960s LSD is used experimentally to treat autism
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Creak proposes a 9 point scale for more objectively diagnosing autism, which is validated in 1969. However, little attention is paid to it.
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autism is first included in the Internationl Clssification of Diseases (ICD)
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Dr. Eric Schoppler develops the TEACCH approach for teaching children with autism
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Dr. Bernard Rimland publishes "Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and its Implications for neural theory of behaviour" but his idea that the cause is based in biology is not listened to.
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Rutter and FOlstein conduct a twin study and conclude that there is a genetic influence in autism
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autism is included for hte first time in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
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Lovaas effectively treats children with autism using early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) which utilizes discrete trial training
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ADOS is the first validated autism diagnostic test and allows autism to be diagnosed at age 2
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Advances in genetic methods make it possible to look for small egnetic differences, leading to discovery of genetic links to austism
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The development of and advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging make it possible to identify spcific regions of the brain which is used to identify differences in individuals with autism.
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Diagnostic criteria for autism is reviwed in DSM-IV
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Dr. Andrew Wakefield publishes an article in The Lancet claming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, which is later found fraudulent.
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An investigation by Deer finds that Wakefield distorted his findings. Scientists retract the conclusion linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
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HE ICD, including autism, is revised.
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Major revisions in the DSM diagnoastic criteria result in autism and related disorders (including Aspergers) falling under the umbrella of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
