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- She had Kanner's autism. Although Lorna Wing had already established a reputation for her electrophysiological studies of various types of mental illness, she abandoned them to work on autism instead. This occupied the rest of her career, a period during which she forged an entirely new understanding of the disorder.
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She was a pioneer in the field of childhood developmental disorders, who advanced understanding of autism worldwide, introduced the term Asperger syndrome in 1976 [1] and was involved in founding the National Autistic Society (NAS) in the UK.
Oct 4, 2018 · Born in Gillingham in 1928, Lorna Wing became an internationally respected authority on autism. A brilliant psychiatrist and mother to an autistic daughter, Susie, Lorna undertook an ambitious study in the late 1970s of autistic adults and children in South London with Dr Judith Gould.
May 4, 2022 · The formidable British duo who helped cast light on the Autism spectrum. It’s difficult to overstate the impact that psychiatrist Lorna Wing, MD, and clinical psychologist Judith Gould, PhD, had on the field of autism and autism research.
Aug 23, 2014 · Although Lorna Wing had already established a reputation for her electrophysiological studies of various types of mental illness, she abandoned them to work on autism instead. This occupied the rest of her career, a period during which she forged an entirely new understanding of the disorder.
Aug 13, 2021 · In this blog post I will outline how, firstly, Wing did not introduce Asperger’s syndome to English language psychiatry and, secondly, that Wing did not think it was a distinct diagnosis to autism. In 1981 Wing wrote a paper named “Asperger’s syndrome: a clinical account” (Wing 1981).
In 1979 Lorna Wing and Judith Gould examined the prevalence of autism, as defined by Leo Kanner, among children known to have special needs in the former London Borough of Camberwell. They found a prevalence in those with IQ under 70 of nearly 5 per 10,000 for this syndrome, closely similar to the rate found by Lotter.
Jun 20, 2014 · Dr. Wing, a British psychiatrist, recognized autism as a mental disorder of many gradations, and she coined the term Asperger’s syndrome for its mildest form.
