Perspectives on autism.
Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger independentlly of each other, first published accounts of autism as a disorder.
Leo Kanner’s (1943).
“An extreme autistic aloneness that, whenever possible, disregards, ignores, shuts out anything that comes to the child from the outside”.
“Profound aloneness dominates all behaviors”.
“The child’s behavior is governed by an anxiously obsessive desire for the maintenance of sameness”.
“Inborn disturbances of affective contact”
Hans Asperger’s (1944)
“A fundamental disturbance which manifests itself in difficulties with social integration”.
“In many cases, the failure to be integrated in a social group is the most conspicuous feature, but in other cases, this failure is compensated for by particular originality of thought and experience, which may well lead to exceptional achievements in later life”.
“The normal speech melody, the natural flow of speech is missing… speech is often sing-song”.
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