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At the same time Kanner was working on autism, another psychiatrist from Austria, Hans Apserger, was describing the disorder. The two psychiatrists never met. Asperger (who published in German) and Kanner (who published in English) apparently knew nothing of each other, perhaps because of the absence of communication between the U.S. and Austria during World War II. And Asperger apparently did little work on the subject after his lab was destroyed by Allied bombing. It's too bad because he, much more than Kanner, believed that autism was a spectrum and it took another 35 years for the idea of the spectrum to take off in the U.S. and the U.K. Asperger's name is associated with one of the autism spectrum disorders in which there is no language delay, but significant social impairment. |
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