Autism-World

April 2nd of 2008 is the first World Autism Day, which was designated by the United Nations General Assembly following the adoption of the Qatari resolution at the end of 2007.
Autism is a kind of neurodevelopmental disabilities. Children with autism show symptoms like communication problem, repetive behaviors and limited interests, and so on. Autism can [...]

May 4, 2006 — At least 300,000 school-aged U.S. children had ever been diagnosed with autism as of 2003-2004, the CDC estimates.
That estimate is based on two national health surveys conducted by the CDC in 2003-2004. The results appear in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The surveys asked parents if their child had ever [...]

(??Aug. 28, 1903-March 13, 1990)Austrian-U.S. psychologist. Trained in Vienna, he was arrested by the Nazis and interned in concentration camps (1938 ??¡°1939). He immigrated to the U.S., where from 1944 he directed the University of Chicago’s Orthogenic School, a laboratory school for disturbed children, and became known especially for his work with autistic children. He [...]

(b. February 18, 1906, d. October 21, 1980) Hans Asperger was an Austrian pediatrician. Asperger syndrome is named after his name.
Born on a farm outside Vienna, Asperger displayed an early talent for languages. He was a member in the youth movements of the 1920s. He earned his medical doctorate in 1931, and found his first [...]

(June 13 1894 – April 4 1981),was born in Klekotow, Austria.He was an famous psychiatrist and physician known for his work about to autism.
He studied at the University of Berlin from 1913, his studies broken by service with the Austrian Army in World War I, finally receiving his MD in 1921.
He emigrated to the United [...]

The history of autism begins in the early 1940’s.In 1943, Leo Kanner of Baltimore published his first paper identifying autistic children paper on the disorder,asserting he had noticed such children since 1938.In 1944,Hans Asperger, of Vienna, Austria, published another famous paper that first described a similar condition that later became known as Asperger Syndrome.Because the [...]