World Autism Awareness Day Timeline

2013

Autism is a Spectrum

The "American Psychiatric Association" develops a unified category of Autism Spectrum in the "Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders".

2007

World Autism Awareness Day

Created by the United Nations General Assembly, World Autism Awareness Day lands on April 2 every year.

1995

Studies on the Asperger Syndrome

As a result of her 30 year study, Sula Wolff publishes that children with Asperger syndrome represent the most subtle and most able end of the autism spectrum because they become independent as adults and display exceptional gifts.