Hans Asperger (February 18, 1906 – October 21, 1980) was an Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor. He is best known for his early studies on mental disorders, especially in children. His work was largely unnoticed during his lifetime except for a few accolades in Vienna, and his studies on psychological disorders only acquired world renown posthumously. There was a resurgence of interest in his work beginning in the 1980s, and due to his earlier work which was regarded by many to be under the fold of autism spectrum disorders, was named after him. Both Asperger’s original paediatric diagnosis of autistic psychopathy (AP), and the eponymous diagnosis of Asperger syndrome (AS) that was named for him after his death, remain controversial in competing diagnostic criteria.
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Hans Asperger was born and raised on a farm outside Vienna, Austria. The elder of two sons, Hans had difficulty finding friends and was considered a lonely, remote child. He was talented in language; in particular, he was interested in the Austrian poet Franz Grillparzer, whose poetry he would frequently quote to his uninterested classmates. He also liked to quote himself and often referred to himself from a third-person perspective.
EnterHans Asperger, who started out a nice Viennese liberal, working with Georg Frankl, diagnosing young patients displaying autistic traits ... Like Asperger, Wolf flipped from liberal feminist to far right ... Asperger and his eugenist ideology lives on.
‘I have Asperger’s – I think you have Asperger’s.’” ... The fact that some autistic people find it hard to grasp non-literal language has certainly contributed to the myth, as did the controversial work of Hans Asperger.
‘He just shrugged’ ... Steil believes Wallace actually had Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism spectrum disorder first highlighted by Austrian physician Hans Asperger in 1944 — Wallace’s final year as vice president ... Roosevelt in 1945.
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“The definition of autism has changed back and forth since it was first described by Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger in 1943 and 1944, and those changes and how we define it have a lot to do with who we ...
... autism being a spectrum condition that blurred out into humanity as a whole, and Wing’s identification of a sub-category of autistic people she named after the Austrian psychologist Hans Asperger.
It is considered a part of the autism spectrum and was named after Hans Asperger, an Austrian paediatrician who first described the condition in the 1940s.. ...
“The language police will inform you that you can’t use that term because of the link with Hans Asperger and the Nazis,” she says ... The Hans Asperger revelations occurred between the surveys, notes ...
... distinct diagnosis has only existed throughout one lifetime, having been “discovered” in the 1940s independently by American psychiatrist Leo Kanner and German psychiatrist Hans Asperger.
It was back in 1944 when Hans Asperger described autism as a disorder in children who had difficulties with social interactions. Asperger’s study and his autism psychopathology article contributed to ...
Hans Asperger was a Nazi scientist during the Second World War and was responsible for the deaths of dozens of children; however, his dark story was not revealed publicly for many years after the diagnosis became common.
In " The new history of autism," journalist David Dobbs reveals the scientists whose forgotten contributions predated or enabled those of Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger, long credited as the sole founders of autism research ... .
Hans Asperger was a Nazi scientist during the Second World War and was responsible for the deaths of dozens of children; however, his dark story was not revealed publicly for many years after the diagnosis became common.
Show additional share options. Show additional share options ... Schumer also discussed her husband, ChrisFischer’s, autism spectrum disorder, which used to be called Asperger’s until it was discovered that Dr. Hans Asperger had Nazi ties ... ....
Houston Forward Times
10 Aug 2023
Houston Forward Times
10 Aug 2023