The person who gave his name to Asperger's syndrome: Who is Hans Asperger?
Asperger's syndrome was named after Hans Asperger, an Austrian pediatrician. He is an expert on mental disorders, especially in children, and his work is world-renowned.
Such important works were not noticed when he was alive, but he became more famous after his death.
Dr. Hans Asperger (18 February 1906 – 21 October 1980)
Dr. Hans Asperger graduated from the Vienna Medical School and conducted research in the field of Child Psychology. He detected "Autistic personality traits" in four of the children he observed in 1944. The children in question did not fit the classical autistic patterns exactly, but they exhibited all the communication, interaction, and imagination failures in the Autism trilogy. Lack of empathy, inability to make friends, excessive concentration on special interests, and clumsy movements were some of the common behavioral characteristics exhibited by the children. Hans Asperger, who determined that children's autistic features and related special abilities continue in adulthood, wrote the following optimistic comment with a different perspective from Leo Kanner, who also works in the field of autism and makes pessimistic predictions about autism.
Toward the end of World War II, Hans Asperger opens a school for children with autism with Nurse Victorine. Unfortunately, the school is destroyed in a bombardment, and Nurse Victorine dies. Many documents containing H. Asperger's early works are lost or destroyed. H. Asperger's work has been ignored for many years in English-speaking countries. Shortly after his death (1981), British researcher Lorna Wing uses the term "Asperger's Syndrome" in reference to his work, and Asperger's Syndrome is recognized by the scientific community.
Interesting features about his childhood have been suggested Hans Asperger; It has been claimed that Hans Asperger was lonely and distant in his childhood and had difficulty establishing friendships. It has been said that he has a talent for foreign languages, an interest in the poems of an Austrian poet and that he tells these poems to his classmates who have never been interested in them.
April 2018
A horrible claim about Hans Asperger
A shocking claim has been made about the Austrian doctor Hans Asperger, who is known for his work on genetic diseases in children and gave his name to Asperger's syndrome. Asperger's was allegedly responsible for the death of children with genetic diseases during Nazi Germany.
Research conducted by medical historian Herwig Czech examined Asperger's personal files and patient records. As a result of 8 years of work, documents showing that Asperger supported the euthanasia program implemented during the Nazi Germany period were revealed.
Czech alleged that Asperger was preparing reports for inclusion in the euthanasia program by identifying children with certain congenital diseases who were 'not deemed worthy of life'.
It is stated that some of the children identified as a result of the reports prepared by Asperger were left to die by starvation, while the other part was killed in the gas chambers.
It is thought that 800 children with hereditary diseases were killed as part of the euthanasia program between 1940 and 1945 at the 'Am Spiegelgrund clinic in Vienna, where Asperger worked. Another noteworthy detail in the records is that the causes of death of children are referred to as 'pneumonia'.
The results of the research were published in the journal "Molecular Autism".
WHAT IS ASPERGER SYNDROME?
Asperger's syndrome is a developmental disorder that makes interacting with other people very difficult. Those with Asperger's syndrome have some of the features of autism. However, unlike autistic people, those with Asperger's syndrome normally begin to speak at the age when speech skills develop, that is, before the age of 2. Asperger's syndrome is lifelong, but symptoms tend to improve over time.