1908: Eugen Bleuler first uses the term "autism."
1943: Leo Kanner publishes a paper describing a group of children with similar symptoms, coining the term "early infantile autism."
1944: Hans Asperger describes a milder form of autism that later became known as Asperger's syndrome.
1960s: Researchers begin to study the role of genetics in the development of autism.
1980s: Diagnostic criteria for autism are revised and "autism spectrum disorder" becomes the preferred term.
1991: The organization now known as Autism Speaks is founded by Bob Wright and Suzanne Wright.
2009: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that about 1 in every 110 children has been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
2010: Andrew Wakefield loses his medical license and is barred from practicing medicine, following the retraction of his autism paper.
2013: The DSM-5 combines autism, Asperger’s, and childhood disintegrative disorder into autism spectrum disorder.
2014: The president signs the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support (CARES) Act of 2014.
2020: The CDC determines 1 in 54 children have been identified with an autism spectrum disorder.
2023: 1 in 36 children have been identified.
1943: Leo Kanner publishes a paper describing a group of children with similar symptoms, coining the term "early infantile autism."
1944: Hans Asperger describes a milder form of autism that later became known as Asperger's syndrome.
1960s: Researchers begin to study the role of genetics in the development of autism.
1980s: Diagnostic criteria for autism are revised and "autism spectrum disorder" becomes the preferred term.
1991: The organization now known as Autism Speaks is founded by Bob Wright and Suzanne Wright.
2009: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that about 1 in every 110 children has been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
2010: Andrew Wakefield loses his medical license and is barred from practicing medicine, following the retraction of his autism paper.
2013: The DSM-5 combines autism, Asperger’s, and childhood disintegrative disorder into autism spectrum disorder.
2014: The president signs the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support (CARES) Act of 2014.
2020: The CDC determines 1 in 54 children have been identified with an autism spectrum disorder.
2023: 1 in 36 children have been identified.
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