Landmark Clinical, Scientific, and Professional Contributions
In 1979, Lorna Wing and her Maudsley colleague, Judith Gould, published a landmark study of 173 children in Camberwell, South London, who had autistic features or had an IQ of under 50, or both. As Wing told Adam Feinstein in 2009, there were certainly some children who beautifully fitted Leo Kanner’s 1943 criteria for autism, “but there was a huge collection in the middle who could not be put into either category. Very few fitted Asperger’s syndrome, because they virtually all had an IQ of under 60 and none were mainstreamed.” From their findings, Wing and Gould concluded that there was clearly a broader autism phenotype. This inspired them to introduce the concept of the triad of impairments in autism: deficits in social relations, communication, and imagination, a concept still used by diagnosticians today. Some researchers, like Francesca Happé at London’s Institute of Psychiatry, maintain that, while the Wing-Gould...
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Feinstein, A. (2013). Wing, Lorna. In: Volkmar, F.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_1877
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