Leo KannerLeo Kanner is a very well known psychiatrist and because of his related work with autism. Doctor Kanner published many articles and books of autism for example: "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact". After many studies and research he names autism as: "early infantile autism." This is now known as autism. For doctor Kanner autism is a pretty big deal, Kanner helped so many parents struggling to understand their children and he also helped the children with autism by he's ways of looking at autism. Leo also made the first U.S psychiatric service.
Emil KraepelinEmil Krapelin was a German psychiatrist, He belived that autism was a biological genetic malfunction according to his theories. Even though this guy was well known for his abilities with kids with autism. He called his research the physical causes of mental illness, he wanted to establish the foundations of the more new classification system for mental disorders. Kraepelin wanted people to know that by studying case histories and identifying specific disorders, the disorder of mental illness could be predicted. Emil could predict about the kids with autism, with his theories of autism.
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Hans AspergerHans Asperger was a Austrian pediatrician highly recongnized for his fantastic work with people with mental disorders. Hans discovered a similar sickness to autism but it wansnt the same, it was called Aspergers Syndrom, this was of course named after with last name.
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