Nobody knows the full effects of autism or what causes it. The disorder is so new that there are no drugs and few interventions. The history of Autism is short. Autism had been described as early as 1908 but categorized as a disorder in 1943 by a man named Leo Kanner. Even then, autism is a description of a range of disorders like Asperger's syndrome and Pervasive developmental disorders. Autism is ever changing; everyday scientists rush to …showed first 75 words of 2947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2947 total…Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.). Visit GT Online, the World Wide Web site of The Gazette, at http://www.gazette.com Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Pamphlet by: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, August 1996 p1 (8) Autism. (Pamphlet) Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1996 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke "Autism." U*X*L Science. U*X*L, 1998. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/SRC/