Asperger-History

        Like Autism, Aspergers has likely always existed throughout history. A Russian neurological Eva Sucharewa, a Russian neurological scientific assistant named Eva Sucharewa wrote a paper about the �Schizoid Personality of Childhood," describing several boys� behavioral habits, which today would be considered traits of Asperger�s syndrome.

        However, it is usually said that Hans Asperger, an Austrian pediatrician working in Vienna, was the first to describe Asperger�s Syndrome as a disorder in 1944, though he used the word Autism and it is possible he simply included a wider range of symptoms to describe Autism. Note that he was unaware of Kanner�s work in describing Autism. However, Asperger�s Syndrome does bear his name, after all. Asperger studied a group of children that seemed to have difficulty in interacting with others in a socially accepted manner. Unlike Kanner's observations, the children Asperger described had communication and cognitive development in the near-average range of life.

        As Kanner�s paper was published in English and Asperger�s in German, his work was little recognized until Lorna Wing mentioned it in a paper. It was not until 1994, 50 years after Hans Asperger published his work that the condition appeared in a diagnostic manual.

        Asperger Syndrome is at the time of this writing, still not a commonly known disorder and there is not much known of it.






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