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 * Shaker Name:** Dr. Leo Kanner


 * Basic Work:** Doctor at John’s Hopkins Hospital, discovered Austism.


 * Key Work:** Children were found with many disorders that changed their lives, as well as the lives of their family members that no one could come to conclusion with. Dr. Kanner studied these cases.


 * Key Personnel:** Dr. Leo Kanner and Dr. Hans Asperger


 * Why/How a shaker?** Dr. Kanner studied a group of eleven children and came up with the name “early infantile autism”. This was the first time it was presented into the English Language. Autism is on the rise and now it affects about 3.4 to every 1000 children ages three to ten. Dr. Hans Asperger described a milder form of the disorder and came up with the name Asperger’s syndrome. These two disorders are now listed in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”.


 * Links:** [|http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/autism/complete-publication.shtml#pub6]