The Age of Autism: Backward

The Age of Autism Backward
by Dan Olmsted
United Press International

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050228-053300-1821r.htm

This article describes the history of Leo Kanner in 1943 identifying 11 case studies of children born from 1931 to 1938, with a new and unique developmental disorder present at birth. Kanner believed autism to be present at birth.

The article explores the possibility that based on Kanner's writings and parental notes, some of those 11 original cases may have been 'regressive' or acquired autism syndrome and were not 'autistic' since birth. This would support an environmental trigger theory.

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