ASPERGER'S SYNDROME: A BRIEF HISTORY
" 1943 Leo Kanner investigated classic autism
" 1944 Hans Asperger wrote his paper on "autistic psychopathy"
" 1981 Lorna Wing first coined the phrase "Asperger's Syndrome"
" 1989 Gilberg & Gillberg established diagnostic criteria for Asperger's Syndrome
" 1991 Uta Frith translated Asperger's work into English
" 1993 World Health Organisation (WHO) put Asperger's Syndrome in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 10)
" 1994 American Psychiatric Association (APA) put Asperger's Syndrome in Diagnostical and Statistical Manual IV (DSM IV)