Article: Autism: A review for family physicians

Introduction

Autism is not a single disorder but a name (derived from Greek 'autos', meaning 'self') given to a behavioural phenotype. Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist, in 1943 first published a report describing 11 children with 'disturbances of affective contact' and coined the term 'autism' to describe the 'extreme aloneness' that he saw as its characteristic trait.[1] Kanner noted that these children demonstrated a profound lack of social engagement, failed to use language to communicate and had an obsessive need for sameness; and proposed that these problems were due to difficulties in the parent-child relationship.[1]

Until the mid 1980's, autism was face=+Italic; wronglyface=-Italic; ...

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