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Childhood Autism

False Hope/Perseverance; The Fine Line Inbetween

By Judy Gruenfeld

As the mother of an Autistic son, who is now an adult, I have run the full gamut of emotions. First, you get that uneasy feeling that something is not quite right. You can't put your finger on it, but you know this child is not like others his age. You dismiss the feeling, telling yourself that every child is different (and, indeed they are). But way down, deep inside of you, the truth is festering and gives you no peace. read more...

Dr. Leo Kanner

Dr. Leo Kanner first introduced the term " early infantile autism" in his paper Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact in 1943. In 1956 he published a paper co-written with Dr. Leon Eisenberg entitled Early Infantile Autism.

Leo Kanner, an Austrian born psychiatrist and physician, was the first person in the United States to be called a 'pediatric psychiatrist', and he is the first person accredited to have published in the field of what is now called the "autism spectrum".

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