History of Autism

By jdagunde

  • Kanner was born in Austria

  • Kanner Mover to Berlin

  • Hans Asperger was born in Vienna

  • Eugen Bleuler first used the term Autism.

  • Autism was appointed as medical nomenclature for the first time by Dr Eugen Bleuler.

  • Kanner completed his thesis on Investigations of the influence of rest, sleep and work on the electrocardiogram and cardiophonogram with special attention to conduction and depolarization time

  • Kanner suggested to a coworker they move to Amrica.

  • Kanner founded the Childrens Psychiatric Service

  • Hans Asperger completed his medical degree

  • In a paper Hans described how much he would like to help abnormal children

  • Bettelheim was sent to Dashau Concentration Camp

  • Bettelheim taught history

  • Leo Kanner publish paper on Autism.

  • Hans Asperger published paper on Aspergers

  • James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin discovered the double helix structure of DNA

  • DSM III was launched

  • Kanner was quoted in Time magazine as saying Mothers of autistic children have defrosted only enough to have a child.

  • Bettelheim wrote The Empty Fortress

  • Dr Bernard Rimland published Infantile Autism: The Syndrom and it's Implications for neural Theory of Behavior

  • Aspergers paper was translated to English

  • Bettelheim commited suicide

  • DSMIV

  • Aspers was entered into the DSM-VI

  • Dr Andrew Wakefield Published a aper linking the MMR vaccine with autism

  • Retraction of the paper linking MMR Vaccine with autism