Topic
- webinar of 45 minutes, including time for questions
- about the Austrian-American child psychiatrist Leo Kanner
- and his theory of early infantile autism (later called classic autism)
- which he first described in 1943
Target audience
- university students and researchers interested in autism, child psychiatry in general
- this presentation is in English
Speaker
- Frederik Boven, PhD
- is psychologist and philosopher
- has written a doctoral thesis entitled Solitary Persons? The Conceptualisation of Autism as a Contact Disorder by Frankl, Asperger, and Kanner.
- is director of the autistic-led foundation Autism Digital
- is editor of the Dutch autism journal WTA
- has been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome as adult
Date and time
- February 17th, 2022
- 20:00 – 20:45 CET