Autism Through Ages Baffles Science By Robert Williams Jr., June
12, 2000 at Health24 News For years past people with autism were
placed in institutions all over the world. Autism is not a
modern problem, even though it has only recently gained vast
recognition. It is difficult to discuss the history of autism
treatment without paying particular attention to the history of
"autism" as a concept and the ways in which autism has been
conceptualized and theorized about over the past 100 years. The
ways in which we understand and think about autism have directly
and indirectly formed our conceptual responses to autism over
the years. The very concept of "treatment" carries with it many
presumptions about the nature of autism, its origins and its
potential outcomes. The history of autism is not a linear one,
and regardless of the past or present debates over treatment,
origin or outcome, as more and more studies and research are
conducted the greater the understanding of autism will become.
Swiss psychiatrist Euge