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It was first described by a German doctor, Hans Asperger, in 1944 (one year after Leo Kanner's first paper on autism). In his paper, he discusses "a pattern of behaviors in several young boys who had normal intelligence and language development, but who also exhibited autistic-like behaviors and marked deficiencies in social and communication skills."<ref>http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html#DSM</ref> Research continues into the condition's underlying causes.
It was first described by a German doctor, Hans Asperger, in 1944 (one year after Leo Kanner's first paper on autism). In his paper, he discusses "a pattern of behaviors in several young boys who had normal intelligence and language development, but who also exhibited autistic-like behaviors and marked deficiencies in social and communication skills."<ref>http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html#DSM</ref> Research continues into the condition's underlying causes.
The term Asperger syndrome was first used in a paper by British psychiatrist, Lorna Wing.
Other persons involved in studying Asperger syndrome include Tony Attwood and Simon Baron-Cohen.
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