| Title |
Leo Kanner’s Mention of 1938 in His Report on Autism Refers to His First Patient
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, August 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10803-015-2541-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dan Olmsted, Mark Blaxill |
| Abstract |
Leo Kanner begins his landmark 1943 case series on autistic children by stating the condition was first brought to his attention in 1938. Recent letters to JADD have described this reference as "mysterious" and speculated it refers to papers published that year by Despert or Asperger. In fact, as Kanner goes on to state, 1938 is when he examined the first child in his case series. An exchange of letters with Despert and later writing by Kanner also point to the originality of his observations. |
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| United States | 3 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
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| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 17% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 7% |
| Researcher | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 6 | 14% |
| Unknown | 8 | 19% |
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| Social Sciences | 6 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 10% |
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