Evidence Based Practices Of Leo Kanner

1. Leo Kanner was the first to identify autism as a distinct neurological condition. He studied eleven children ages three years to eleven years who were not fitting into other childhood diagnosis. They had one major thing in common, they wanted to be alone. He used the word auto to describe them because they wanted to be left alone. This is where the word autism derived from. Kanner blamed parents. Stating that they were not the most loving and caring of parents. He noticed that they had good cognitive potential and intelligence and overall “normal”.

2. Evidence based practices are important because they have been “clearly grounded in scientific research”. (Wheeler, Mayton, Carter, 2015, p. 10). These practices are researched, documented,