The Man Who Understood Autism When Nobody Else Did – A Tribute to Leo Kanner

• By: Irene Slovak Kleiner, MS
• April 1st, 2011
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In 1956, my younger son was born. He was about five years old before we finally found a name for the problem he had. We had visited many professionals and asked them to diagnose his condition and tell us what we could do. “There is no name,” most of them said, “and the only thing to do is...