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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 16 The historical development of autism diagnosis Keywords: autism diagnosis Abstract: This paper reviews the historical development of autism diagnosis, summed up the diagnostic significance in the history of the development and changes with the times. Onset usually in childhood autism before the age of three, is a kind of verbal / non-verbal communication and linguistic characteristics, social development and games, unusual behavior patterns such as interest and has a qualitative defect and unusual breadth of mental developmental disorders (pervasive development disorder, hereinafter referred to as PDD). Childhood autism as a heterogeneous nature of the particular individual seemed to have been, from the legend of that ‘fairy replaced the’ very beautiful but unfamiliar with the child’s description of human alienation, as well as ‘Juniper brothers’ story of pilgrims on the road descriptions of the eighteenth century, Dr. Itard on ‘Aviron wild child’ (wild boy of Averon) records have enabled us to see the shadow of some characteristics similar to autism, but these descriptions are often fragmented, it is only treat it as a special exception cases, feel great interest, but few people will think of other children may also be the case. Truly regard it as one with a heterogeneous group of clinical entities described in the 20th century American doctors 40 years Leo kanner, he was reported in 1943 by 11 cases for the first time named as ‘early-onset infantile autism’ ( early infantile autism) patients, and describe the group of patients with the following features: a serious lack of emotional contact with others; strongly adhere to the same, own choice, often bizarre, repetitive rituals or routine; silence or language, a significant exception; a high level of visual-spatial skills or mechanical memory ability and learning difficulties in other areas, in contrast to; intelligent, smart and attractive appearance of the performance. In fact,