There had previously been debate about how much Hans Asperger knew about what the Nazis were doing, and whether in fact his work had saved some autistic children from death. Hans Asperger worked with the Nazis during the Holocaust and his abhorrent descriptions of some autistic children as being less ‘worthwhile’ than others led to dozens of children being sent to a Nazi clinic, where they were murdered. While the concept of autism being a spectrum condition is considered important and useful today, explicit reliance on Hans Asperger’s work is now controversial.
Dr Wing pioneered the idea that autism is a spectrum condition and did so with reference to Hans Asperger’s much earlier work, which noted marked differences between autistic children. The term ‘Asperger syndrome’ was introduced to the field of autism research in the 1980s by the British psychiatrist Dr Lorna Wing, a cofounder of the National Autistic Society and a consultant to the NAS Lorna Wing Centre until her death in 2014. The history of Asperger and Asperger syndrome Others do not, usually for two reasons: because the term is no longer used officially and because of revelations about the Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger, who Asperger syndrome was named after and who was complicit with the Nazis. Some people who received a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome continue to use this terminology to refer to themselves. Broadly, it is now agreed that what was referred to as Asperger syndrome is part of the autism spectrum and there is no need for a separate term. Historically, Asperger syndrome was used as a diagnostic term for some autistic people who did not also have a diagnosis of a learning disability. ‘Asperger syndrome’ (often shortened to Asperger’s) is no longer used as a diagnostic term for autism and is considered controversial due to the history of Hans Asperger, which is summarised below.
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