Paul Eugen Bleuler

In the early 1900’s autism was a completely misunderstood concept and any child who was living with it was assumed to be living with “childhood schizophrenia” and developed much slower than children without autism. A four year study of Donald Triplett gave Dr. Kannar a better understanding of what autism was and what it caused certain people to do. The main question was, does it affect the child’s development? Living with autism can affect a child’s development due to the fact that they don’t have a long attention span, can cause them to have a repetitive behavior, along with trouble in social situations whether it be verbal or non verbal.

Autism Spectrum Disorder is a growing problem throughout the entire globe. Autism Spectrum Disorder is defined as deficits in social reciprocity and communication, as well as unusual, restricted and repetitive behaviors (Lord). Such behaviors may include running back and forth, excessive cleaning, noises, and clapping. These also vary greatly with age and ability, and the notion of ASD has been introduced to recognize these diversities (Firth). Autism was first discovered in 1943 when Leo Kanner observed 11 children with several common traits such as, impairments in social interaction, anguish for changes, good memory, belated echolalia, over sensitivity to certain stimuli (especially sound), food problems, limitations in spontaneous activity,

The term autism was first used by psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908. He used it to describe one of his patients that had schizophrenia. He used it to describe his patient who had withdrawn into his own world. The pioneers of the study of ASDs were Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger. They both worked separately and studied different children. In their research, both of their studies showed that the children that they were studying showed similar characteristics. Both Kanner’s and Asperger’s children had problems in social activity and were different from normal children in terms of fine motor skills. (Mandal)

Eugen Blueler, a psychiatrist, was the first to introduce the name "Autism" but he diagnosed this disease to a schizophrenic adult. Leo Kanner distinguished the two later in order to clarify the understanding of the disability. (Forty-six)

The term “autism” has been used for approximately one hundred years. Autism comes from the Greek word “autos” which means “self.” Self applies to autism because people are taken away from their social life and isolate themselves. A Switzerland psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler, was the first person ever to use the word autism in 1911 towards symptoms of schizophrenia. From 1940 through the 1990s, doctors have had many theories on how autism affects children. They came to the conclusion that autism medically affects each child differently. Towards the 1980s

Autism has undergone significant definition changes in the past. The term was first used in 1912 by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler from the Greek word for self—autos—in his description of patients with “schizophrenic thinking divorced from both logic and reality” (Rorvik 249). However, an established set of guidelines for diagnosis would not be established until 1943, when Leo Kanner, a German émigré to the United States, wrote “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Content”, a landmark essay in which he “described eleven children who, from infancy, had seemed to cut off from their parents…[and] existed in their own, often impenetrable world” (Pollak 250). The common features that he noticed in those eleven children were

Research into Autism has grown enormously over the past 20 years due to growing awareness and the number of children and adults affected. In 1943, Leo Kanner first described the classic autistic syndrome. Since then, our knowledge and understanding in this area has broadened. In consequence, estimates of prevalence have increased considerably.

The word autism meaning “living in self” in Greek was first utilized in 1911 by Swiss psychiatrist, Eugene Bleuler. He used this word to describe a condition of self absorption caused by social relatedness (Gupta 2004). In 1943, Dr. Leo Kanner from the John Hopkins Hospital introduced the label early infantile autism when he reported 11 children exhibiting similar behaviors. Before his work, doctors labeled such children as mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed. About 75% have IQs below 70. At the same time, research is equivocal regarding the number of children with autism who are nonverbal,

Autism has been recognized as an innate disorder since 1943 when Dr. Leo Kanner coined the term “autism” whilst describing a child that exhibited what are now consistently documented as autistic tendencies (Fischbach par. 4). Shirley Wang of the Wall Street Journal reports, “About 1% of the population in the U.S.—or some three million

Autism was first described in 1943 by Leo Kanner, a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first self-described child psychiatrist, in a paper he wrote titled, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact." Dr. Kanner described a similar disorder, but different from childhood schizophrenia. Autism, which has symptoms of schizophrenia, describes withdrawn symptoms or social interaction problems, and was included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd Ed. (DSM-III) under the name Infantile Autism in 1980. This was later changed to autism in the revised DSM-III in 1987. The authors indicated

Although Kanner in 1943 in a report titled ‘Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact’, borrowed the term ‘autism’ from Bleuler he did not consider what he referred to as ‘infantile autism’ an early form of schizophrenia. The medical signs were distinguishable and, unlike schizophrenia, Kanner’s patients appeared to display symptoms from birth. In his report Kanner recorded conditions that were consistent in 11 young patients. The patients refused contact with parents or others and preferred to be alone, the displayed language disorders i.e. selective mutism and failure to from sentences correctly. He observed their excellent memory skills which he referred to as ‘mechanical memory’ and how they displayed abnormal behaviours along with

The word “autism” was first used by a Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in an article written in the American Journal of Insanity in 1912. It comes from the Greek word meaning self. Bleuler used it to describe the schizophrenic’s seeming difficulty in connecting with others (“Autism”).

Leo Kanner was the first person that identified about autism. His description about autism ‘Autistic disturbances of effective contract’ was published in 1943. His description was talk about early infantile autism. Second person that published his description about this topic was an Austrian medical student named Hans Asperger in 1944 one year later after Leo Kanner description paper published. ‘Autistic psychopathy in children’ was the title for his publication and describes more about childhood autistic

The word autism comes from the Greek word “autos,” meaning “self;” although the term itself has been used for about 100 years, it was initially used to describe one set of symptoms of schizophrenia. Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist, was the first person to utilize the term around 1911. In the 1940s, researchers in the United States began to use the term to describe children with social and emotional troubles. Leo Kanner, an American child psychiatrist, published a paper in 1943 describing 11 children who were greatly intellectual but displayed "a powerful desire for aloneness" and "an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness." He ultimately classified their condition as "early infantile autism." Subsequently, Hans Asperger indentified

autism was first described in the 1940s. Leo Kanner in the United States and Hans Asperger in Austria independently published papers describing children with severe social and communicative impairments. Both Kanner and Asperger used the term "autism" (meaning “alone”) to describe the syndromes they had identified. Kanner described children who had impoverished social relationships from early in life, employed deviant language, and were subject to behavioral stereotypies. Asperger’s description identified children with normal IQs and normal language development who suffered from social and some types of communicative impairments. (slaughter)