The History of Autism Spectrum Disorder

History of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
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History of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Pioneer views of ASD prior to the 1900s
Before the 1990s, ASD was confused and combined with other psychological situations. Some researchers compared autism to schizophrenia, while others, like Asperger and Kenner, exposed the term to describe children with social and emotional problems (Hogge, 2022). The 1900s revealed cognitive deficits in perception, motility, relations, speech, and language caused autism. The findings made society accept and review the healing approach for treating autistic children. Currently, individuals with ASD are educated, and most have successful careers. The procedures have helped stakeholders structure education that caters to the instructional needs of people with ASD (Gyawali & Patra, 2019). In brief, procedures that help ASD individuals still refer to and improve on the research done in the 1900s.
Clinicians and researchers associated ASD with “refrigerator mothers” and childhood schizophrenia
Researchers called Kenner and Bruno established a theory called refrigerator mothers. The scholars blamed ASD on mothers who failed to provide maternal ties to children (Hogge, 2022). Nevertheless, Rimland’s research refuted the ‘refrigerator mothers” theory. As a result, scientists stopped focusing on parenting as a cause of autism. Today, it is commonly recognized that ASD comes from a mixture of environmental and genetic aspects (Carmona-Serrano et al., 2021). However, parents find it difficult when their children have been diagnosed with ASD. Mothers still blame themselves despite knowing childrearing has nothing to do with ASD. Generally, parents still play important roles in supporting and helping kids with ASD.
The standardization of diagnostic criteria for ASD, including a discussion of Ivar Lovaas’ intensive behavior therapy results
Ivar Lovaas sought to find therapeutic handlings that could change the behaviors of ASD children and address the cause of the actions. The scientist later developed a system based on language, imitation, motivation, social collaboration, parent participation, success, positive connections, and requesting (Gyawali & Patra, 2019). Moreover, children who used Ivar’s model had better and improved behaviors that lasted their lifetime, unlike youngsters with no intervention...