...was "an innate inability to form affective contact" [Kanner, 1943], or that theirs is a "disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of Jife" [Kanner, 1944]. The way this child reacted in later years to any temporary absence of those who...

...first publication describing characteristics of the autistic syndrome, Leo Kanner (1943) noted that "the children's inability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations" (p. 33) and an obsessive insistence on sameness were the most prominent features of the syndrome. Yet,...

...autistic child was self-absorbed aliention ("autism" is from the Greek auto, meaning "self). Kanner noted "the children's inability to relate themselves in...to people and situations from the beginning of life . . . From the start an extreme autistic aloneness. . . ."1 There was "no felt need for communication."...

...autism is characterised by "an inability to relate. ..in the ordinary way to people and situations.. .an extreme autistic aloneness that, whenever possible,...ignores, shuts out anything that comes to the child from outside" (Kanner, 1943). There is also very poor language acquisition, with approximately half of all...

...delineate the syndrome of early infantile autism. Of the eleven children he observed, he identified an 'inability to relate themselves in the ordinary way...people and situations from the beginning of life' (1943: 41). This inability to relate to the world seemed to be due to the fact these children experienced...

...condition. Kanner (1955) writes that: The common denominator in all these patients is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life. ...The case histories indicate... the presence from the start of autistic aloneness which. ..shuts...

...autism is characterised by “an inability to relate ... in the ordinary way to people and situations an extreme autistic aloneness that, whenever possible,...ignores, shuts out anything that comes to the child from outside.” In spite of the early work by Kanner, it was only in 1980 with the publication of DSM-ffl...

...Geburt an bestehendes Unvermögen, mit anderen Menschen in Beziehung zu treten. „[...] a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life"." Die Folgen dieses Unvermögens beschrieben die Eltern folgendermaßen: Die Kinder erschienen als Sich-selbst-genügend...

...and therapy as he or she matures. By autistic aloneness, Dr. Kanner meant "an inability to relate ... in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life."2 Kanner observed that the child with autism disregards, ignores, and willfully shuts out anything...

...unique syndrome more frequent than is indicated by the paucity of observed cases," and adds that the "fundamental disorder is the children's inability...people and situations from the beginning of life" (p.242). Not only is Kanner credited with possibly conducting the first case studies of this condition,...