1980: Infantile 2000: The All-Party Parliamentary is listed for the first time Group on Autism is founded by MPs as a distinct condition and members of the House of Lords Timeline in the Diagnostic and interested in autism Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), issued 2003: Mark Haddon’s novel The by the American Psychiatric Curious Incident of the Dog in the 1962: A group of parents Association Night-time is published, telling the meet in London to form the story of the efforts of Christopher, Society for Autistic Children, 1981: Dr Lorna Wing a 15-year-old boy with Asperger 1908: Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coins the word which will later become the publishes a paper titled syndrome, to find out who killed his autistic to describe a form of schizophrenia in patients National Autistic Society Asperger’s syndrome: a clinical neighbour’s dog, which leads to him account who were withdrawn and self-absorbed 1964: American researcher uncovering a secret about his own Dr Bernard Rimland publishes 1987: A new edition of the family his paper Infantile Autism: manual (DSM-IIIR) replaces the 2007: Professor Tony Attwood The Syndrome and its term infantile autism with the publishes The Complete Guide to Talking sense about autism. Implications for a Neural broader autistic disorder 1926: Child psychiatrist Dr Grunya Asperger’s Syndrome 2015: The Berkshire Autistic Society’s Sukhareva publishes a paper in the Theory of Behaviour, making the case for autism being 1988: The film Rain Man, 2008: The United Nations declares 25th anniversary is marked by a two-day Soviet Union discussing six boys she had starring Dustin Hoffman as conference in Reading with Professor Tony treated in Moscow for what she called linked to genetic factors, that April 2nd will be the first World rather than parenting an autistic savant, is released, Autism Awareness Day Attwood, the world’s leading authority schizoid psychopathy. The descriptions bringing awareness of autism on . At the end of the echo those of Kanner and Asperger 1965: The Society for to a mass audience around the 2009: The UK Parliament passes year, the organisation is renamed Autism published two decades later. Her paper Autistic Children opens its world the Autism Act, the first disability- Berkshire, following feedback from members was translated into German in 1927. It is first school in London. specific law that the former title sounded old-fashioned. not clear whether Kanner and Asperger, 1989: Professor Christopher An agreement is reached with the county’s both native German speakers, were 1966: A study of children Gillberg, of Gothenburg 2009: The US Center for Disease two NHS Clinical Commissioning Group aware of her work before their findings in Middlesex estimates the University in Sweden, Control and Prevention estimates federations for the delivery of a range of appeared in the 1940s, though Kanner rate of autistic syndrome in publishes the first diagnostic that 1 in 110 children have autism extra support for families living with autism cited her in a paper published in 1949 children as 0.04% criteria for Asperger syndrome spectrum conditions and those with children on the waiting list for diagnostic assessment, as part of the Berkshire CAMHS Local Transformation Plan. 17/1800s 1900s 1920s 1940/60s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010 2016: Autism Berkshire launches new services for families as a result of the agreement with the NHS, including advice 1700 & 1800s: Contemporary 1943: Psychiatrist Dr Leo 1977: A study of 1990: A group of parents workshops and support groups tailored accounts of the behaviour of Kanner publishes his paper 21 pairs of twins in meet in Reading to form what for parents whose children are waiting pioneering English scientist Henry Autistic Disturbances of the UK reinforces will become the Berkshire for autism assessments, and an expanded Cavendish (1731-1810) suggest that Affective Contact, describing evidence that the Autistic Society, the forerunner home visit service. There are also new today he would be diagnosed as traits observed in patients in the are of Autism Berkshire leisure activities, such as youth groups and autistic. He was intensely focused US after he moved there from largely genetic relaxation classes for children and their on his research, lived a life of fixed Austria. He suggests autism 1991: Professor Uta Frith, of parents and carers. The 1,000th Berkshire routines, dressed in the same way is related to a lack of parental 1979: Britons Dr London University, publishes Autism Alert Card is issued and Autism for decades, was painfully shy and warmth towards very young Lorna Wing and Dr the first authoritative English Berkshire’s Facebook page notches up its anxious in company but if he could be children. Judith Gould publish translation of Dr Asperger’s 1,000th like. drawn into conversation was a mine of the Camberwell work detailed scientific knowledge. 1944: Dr , an study presenting Austrian psychologist, publishes autism as a spectrum 1997: The National Autistic 1887: Dr John Langdon Down a paper about autistic syndrome disorder, linked by a Society launches a helpline 2010: In line with commitments made in the Autism Act, the publishes his book On Some of the in boys who were highly triad of impairments to meet growing demand in Government publishes a strategy on support for autistic adults Mental Affections of Childhood and intelligent but had obsessive affecting social the UK for information about in England, following the Future in Mind Report Youth, describing interests and poor social skills. interaction, autism A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and other developmental disorders He describes it as a spectrum communication and 2013: 1998: A study published in of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is published in the US, placing all observed in patients that today would disorder, much closer to the imagination the leading British medical sub-categories of autism under the umbrella heading of autism be regarded as indicative of autism modern understanding of the journal The Lancet suggested spectrum disorders, no longer classing Asperger syndrome as a condition than Kanner’s. This that the MMR vaccine caused separate condition. paper and his later work was autism. The claim was later not translated from German into discredited by a series of 2014: The US Center for Disease Control estimates that 1 in 68 English for many years studies published in the UK children have conditions and US