Lorna Wing
, fodd
7 oktober
1928
i
Gillingham
i
Kent
, dod
6 juni
2014
i
Kent
, var en
brittisk
lakare
,
psykiater
och
forskare
inom
psykiatri
.
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Fran borjan avsag hon arbeta med allmanpsykiatri, men da hennes dotter Susie (1956?2005) fick diagnosen
autism
kom hon att fokusera pa detta omrade. Under storre delen av sin yrkesverksamma karriar arbetade Wing for
Medical Research Council
. Hon grundade tillsammans med
Juduth Gould
Centre for Social and Communication Disorders
, ett diagnostiserings- och utvarderingscentrum inom autism.
Wing myntade begreppet
symtomtriad
som ar ett forsok att beskriva vad som ar gemensamt for alla personer som oavsett begavningsniva fatt diagnosen
autism
. Symtomtriaden kallas ocksa for
Wings triad
.
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De tre omradena ar huvudrubriker i de olika diagnosmanualer som anvands i diagnostiseringsarbetet i dag:
- Franvaro av eller bristande socialt samspel, i synnerhet med jamnariga.
- Franvaro av eller bristande utveckling av verbalt och icke-verbalt sprak.
- Repetitiva och stereotypa aktiviteter av vilket slag som helst.
Lorna Wing myntade 1976 begreppet
Aspergers syndrom
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och hon blev aven valkand som forfattare till artikeln
Asperger's Syndrome: a Clinical Account
fran februari 1981, dar hon populariserade
osterrikaren
Hans Aspergers
forskning.
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- Autistic Children (1964).
- Physiological Measures, Sedative Drugs and Morbid Anxiety (1966) (with M H Lader).
- Children Apart: Autistic Children and Their Families (1969).
- Teaching Autistic Children: Guidelines for Teachers (1969).
- Autistic Children: a Guide for Parents (1971).
- Early Childhood Autism: Clinical, Educational and Social Aspects (1975) (ed.).
- What is Operant Conditioning? (1975).
- Aspects of Autism: Biological Research (1988) (ed.).
- Hospital Closure and the Resettlement of Residents: Case of Darenth Park Mental Handicap Hospital (1989).
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders: an Aid to Diagnosis (1995).
- The Autistic Spectrum: a Guide for Parents and Professionals (1996), svensk oversattning: Autismspektrum. Handbok for foraldrar och professionella (1998).
- Smiling at Shadows: a Mother's Journey Raising an Autistic Child (2002) (with Junee Waites, Helen Swinbourne).
- Wing, L. & Gould, J. (1979), Severe Impairments of Social Interaction and Associated Abnormalities in Children: Epidemiology and Classification,
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
, 9, pp. 11-29.
- Wing, L. (1980). Childhood Autism and Social Class: a Question of Selection?,
British Journal of Psychiatry
, 137, pp. 410-417.
- Wing, L. (1981),
Asperger's Syndrome: a Clinical Account
,
Psychological Medicine
, 11, pp. 115-130.
- Burgoine, E. & Wing, L. (1983), Identical triplets with Asperger's Syndrome,
British Journal of Psychiatry
, 143, pp. 261-265.
- Wing, L. and Attwood, A. (1987), Syndromes of Autism and Atypical Development, in Cohen, D. & Donnellan, A. (eds.), Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Disorders, New York, John Wiley & Sons.
- Wing, L. (1991), The Relationship Between Asperger's Syndrome and Kanner's Autism, in Frith, U. (ed.), Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
- Wing, L. (1992), Manifestations of Social Problems in High Functioning Autistic People, in Schopler, E. & Mesibov, G. (eds.), High Functioning Individuals with Autism, New York, Plenum Press.