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Eugen describes a form of schizophrenic thought.
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Observed characteristics in children similar to Kanner and published a paper.
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Kanner published ‘“Autistic Disorders of Affective Contact” where he described 11 patients who all had similar unique behaviours.
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Kanner said that children with Autism experienced a lack of simulation in their environment. He referred to women as refrigerator mothers.
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Behaviors that are like the ones of Autism are categorized under Schizophrenia in the DSM-I
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Research into treatments for Autism focused on medications such as LSD
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Bernard Rimland, founder of the Autism Society of America, proposed that Autism was neurological instead of psychogenic.
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Dr. TEACCHfounded the TEACCH approach at the University of North Carolina. Children and their parents learn strategies and skills to help the child function as independently as possible.
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Schopler developed the Childhood Rating Scale to help in the identification of Autism.
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Bettleheim made the term "refrigerator mothers" popular by stating that children with Autism behaved like prisoners in concentration camps he had seen and mothers behaved like Nazi prison guards.
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Autism linked behaviors remain categorized under childhood schizophrenia in the DSM-II
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Kanner refuted his theory that parents were to blame for their children having Autism. The environement was looked at as a possible factor responsible for Autism.
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Early Childhood Autism is recognized as being seperate from Schizophrenia.
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Infantile Autism is recognized as a pervasive developmental disorder. Six symptoms were listed.
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The term "infantile Autism" was replaced by 'autistic disorders" and 16 new diagnostic criteria were added.
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Ole Ivar Lovaas introduced Applied Behavior Analysis as a technique to help children with Autism.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act reauthorized the original Special Education law. Autism and Traumatic Brain Injury were two new categories added to Special Education eligibility.
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The DSM-IV changed the category of pervasive developmental disorders and included Asperger Syndrome and increased the range of diagnostic criteria for Autism.
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Andrew Wakefield proposed a link between the MMR vaccine and Autism.
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IDEA clearly defines accountability and improves the educational results for children with disabilities.
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Separate diagnostic labels of Autistic Disorder, Asperger’s Disorder, and PDD-NOS were replaced by one umbrella term “Autism Spectrum Disorder
