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Article: Autism: A review for family physicians
- Article from:
- Indian Journal of Medical Sciences
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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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]
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