Disorders Aspergers Syndrome
History of Asperger syndrome
TweetAsperger Syndrome was named after the researcher Hans Asperger. He died well before his identification of pattern behaviour became widely recognized. The reason of this was the language in which he has written his research work. Since his work was in German, there were little efforts done to understand the research pattern and judge it as valid research work.
Lot of medical academics at all times have denied his work mainly because of translation challenges and they therefore rejected it for its lack of merits. An English researcher, Lorna Wing, wrote a paper in 1981 and she suggested the name Asperger Syndrome – she also challenged the previously accepted definition of autism suggested by Leo Kanner in the year 1943. In the year 1991, the detailed and authoritative translation of Hans Asperger’s work by Uta Frith; bring into light the virtually unknown disorder of Asperger Syndrome.
Asperger Syndrome was not known earlier to this instance. There was no scientific data to anser the fundamental questions of the disorder. After the translation of the work of Hans Asperger, the earlier disregarded work got recognition and it became clear about this spectrum of diseases. The Asperger’s Syndrome was included in the ICD-10 in 1993, and the DSM-IV in 1994. It was done close to 50 years from the time, it was worked upon by Hans Asperger. The World Health Organization’s defines the AS in its ICD as “a disorder of uncertain nosological validity”. It was thought that AS should be disregarded from the American Psychiatric Association Manual as well.
Dr. Asperger in the year 1944, observed four children in his research and studied their socially challenging behaviour although they were normal intelligently. They lacked nonverbal communication skills and failed to empathize with peers. Dr. Hans named this illness as autistic psychopathy and it is marked by social isolation as a predominant condition.
Even the current ICD-10 cannot completely capture Asperger's original account of the syndrome.
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