• Thumbnail for Leo Kanner
    Leo Kanner (/ˈkænər/; born Chaskel Leib Kanner; June 13, 1894 – April 3, 1981) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best...
    45 KB (6,095 words) - 19:04, 13 May 2024
  • television director Heinrich Kanner (1864–1930), Austrian author Leo Kanner (1894–1981), Austrian-American psychiatrist Patrick Kanner (born 1957), French politician...
    417 bytes (91 words) - 22:26, 22 August 2020
  • Leo Kanner called attention to what appeared to him as a lack of warmth among the fathers and mothers of autistic children. In a 1949 paper, Kanner suggested...
    24 KB (3,012 words) - 13:10, 1 July 2024
  • 1940s, Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner described two related syndromes, later termed infantile autism and Asperger syndrome. Kanner thought that the condition...
    287 KB (32,103 words) - 15:46, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Classic autism
    psychosis, Kanner's autism, Kanner's syndrome, or (formerly) just autism, is a neurodevelopmental condition first described by Leo Kanner in 1943. It...
    62 KB (6,287 words) - 01:22, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Donald Triplett
    being the first person diagnosed with autism. He was first diagnosed by Leo Kanner in 1943 and was labeled as "Case 1". Triplett was noted for his savant...
    10 KB (1,056 words) - 18:06, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johns Hopkins Hospital
    surgery by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, and child psychiatry by Leo Kanner. Johns Hopkins Children's Center, which serves infants, children, teens...
    35 KB (3,494 words) - 21:05, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Special interest (autism)
    the topic. Bender and Schilder's contemporaries like Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner also wrote about the matter, which was important to the development of...
    20 KB (2,032 words) - 15:19, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harriet Lane
    baby operation, headed the pediatric cardiac clinic. Child psychiatrist Leo Kanner did studies of autistic children. Lawson Wilkins established an endocrine...
    15 KB (1,733 words) - 12:23, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hans Asperger
    that challenged the previously accepted model of autism presented by Leo Kanner in 1943. It was not until 1991 that an authoritative translation of Asperger's...
    71 KB (8,715 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2024