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I chose Richard M. Foxx, Ole, Ivar Lovass, and Robert F Horner as my three individualists who have made a significant contribution to the disability field of behavior disorders. They are all professors at major universities and have written and researched extensively in the field. Lovass has made a huge difference in how autism is treated and the age and intensity of the treatment. There are questions about his 47% recovery rate but there does seem to be an increased ability to function of individuals from his study. Foxx has contributed studies since 1971 to the literature and continues to teach and write on current topics in the field of ABA. I have a few doubts about Horner because of his involvement in PBIS but the actual …show more content…
He was an Austrian pediatrician, medical theroist, and medical professions. He is known for his early studies of mental disorders, especially in children. He wrote over 300 publications, mostly concerning a condition he termed autistic psychopathy. Asperger syndrome was named after him. His original diagnosis of Asperger syndrome is controversial. ("Asperger," 2017)All of Asperger’s work was in German which I don’t read so I pulled two articles about him. The first article was that there was no increase in criminal convictions in Asperger’s original cohort. This was an issue because Asperger originally used the term “autistic Psychopathy” to describe his patients leading to confusion with psychopathic disorder and delinquent behavior. Hans Asperger was the first to describe the behaviors of autistic individuals. This study did a criminal record search. In cases spanning 22 years and 33 convictions, there were only three cases of bodily injury, one case of robbery, and one case of violent and threatening behavior out of the 177 people diagnosed with autism. (Hippler, Viding, Klicpera, & Happe, 2010) The second article talks about whether the diagnositc criteria Asperger Syndrome reflects Asperger’s original account of “autistic psychopathy”. Sixty-eight percent of the sample met the ICD-10 criteria for Asperger’s, while 25% fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for autism. Asperger differentiated Asperger’s from …show more content…
He was a self-educated psychoanalyst in the Freudian tradition. He served as the director of Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children at the University of Chircago from 1944 to 1973. His credentials were not checked because of the disruption of World War II. After his death, it was revealed that he had substantially misrepresented his background and academic credentials. His doctorate was in art history. He had only taken three introductory classes in psychology. He frequently hit students even though he spoke and wrote against corporal punishments. Some students saw rage and out-of-control violence. He was a survivor of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. He blamed mothers for autism. ("Bettelheim," 2017) Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990. He was one of the world’s foremost psychoanalytic humanist. He became interested in abnormal children and believed in psychoanalyzing most people. He apparently knew Freud and gave some comments on what Freud would have said. (Fisher, 2008) Bettelheim wrote about society, art, education, the Holocaust, and fairy tales to child-rearing. There were controversies about some of his work before he died and his reputation plummeted. Bettelheim transformed the Orthogenic School into a beacon for residential treatment facilities. It was clean and the children were dressed and the food was attractive and nutritious. Bettelheim was an outspoken critic of corporal
I chose Richard M. Foxx, Ole, Ivar Lovass, and Robert F Horner as my three individualists who have made a significant contribution to the disability field of behavior disorders. They are all professors at major universities and have written and researched extensively in the field. Lovass has made a huge difference in how autism is treated and the age and intensity of the treatment. There are questions about his 47% recovery rate but there does seem to be an increased ability to function of individuals from his study. Foxx has contributed studies since 1971 to the literature and continues to teach and write on current topics in the field of ABA. I have a few doubts about Horner because of his involvement in PBIS but the actual …show more content…
He was an Austrian pediatrician, medical theroist, and medical professions. He is known for his early studies of mental disorders, especially in children. He wrote over 300 publications, mostly concerning a condition he termed autistic psychopathy. Asperger syndrome was named after him. His original diagnosis of Asperger syndrome is controversial. ("Asperger," 2017)All of Asperger’s work was in German which I don’t read so I pulled two articles about him. The first article was that there was no increase in criminal convictions in Asperger’s original cohort. This was an issue because Asperger originally used the term “autistic Psychopathy” to describe his patients leading to confusion with psychopathic disorder and delinquent behavior. Hans Asperger was the first to describe the behaviors of autistic individuals. This study did a criminal record search. In cases spanning 22 years and 33 convictions, there were only three cases of bodily injury, one case of robbery, and one case of violent and threatening behavior out of the 177 people diagnosed with autism. (Hippler, Viding, Klicpera, & Happe, 2010) The second article talks about whether the diagnositc criteria Asperger Syndrome reflects Asperger’s original account of “autistic psychopathy”. Sixty-eight percent of the sample met the ICD-10 criteria for Asperger’s, while 25% fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for autism. Asperger differentiated Asperger’s from …show more content…
He was a self-educated psychoanalyst in the Freudian tradition. He served as the director of Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children at the University of Chircago from 1944 to 1973. His credentials were not checked because of the disruption of World War II. After his death, it was revealed that he had substantially misrepresented his background and academic credentials. His doctorate was in art history. He had only taken three introductory classes in psychology. He frequently hit students even though he spoke and wrote against corporal punishments. Some students saw rage and out-of-control violence. He was a survivor of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. He blamed mothers for autism. ("Bettelheim," 2017) Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990. He was one of the world’s foremost psychoanalytic humanist. He became interested in abnormal children and believed in psychoanalyzing most people. He apparently knew Freud and gave some comments on what Freud would have said. (Fisher, 2008) Bettelheim wrote about society, art, education, the Holocaust, and fairy tales to child-rearing. There were controversies about some of his work before he died and his reputation plummeted. Bettelheim transformed the Orthogenic School into a beacon for residential treatment facilities. It was clean and the children were dressed and the food was attractive and nutritious. Bettelheim was an outspoken critic of corporal