We regret that circavie, which provided the technology for our timeline on the history of autism, has closed down. While I was able to download its content, I need resources to re-create the timeline in another technology. If you'd like to help by re-creating this timeline in Flash or another technology, please email me at jayne@actearly.org.
What remains of the timeline, for now, is my introduction.
More than a half century has passed since autism first got its name, yet controversies over its cause and treatment remain a mystery.
Since 1943, when Dr. Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins wrote his pivotal paper that established autism as a childhood psychiatric disorder, four autism legends have died, and autism has stepped out of the shadows and into the public eye as its prevalence now strikes one child out of every 150 in the United States.
Go back to 1911 to see who first introduced the term autism and how experts disproved theories over its cause in this interactive timeline on Autism's Origins.
Move the black slider bar  at the bottom to move through the years. |
