Asperger's syndrome: a clinical account
Lorna Wing
Psychological Medicine
February 1981
http://www.mugsy.org/wing2.htm
This is the very first comprehensive article about AS published in English back in 1981.
What I want to know is:
1. When did the NAS become aware of the existence of this article?
2. Did anybody ever follow up on this article or was it ignored by the psychology community because progress and developments in AS were painfully slow until around 1995 when it became an officially recognised condition?
3. Lorna Wing died a few years ago so I never managed to ask her some questions as to why she did not write more (elementary) articles about AS and publish them in 'mainstream' publications read by teachers and general practitioners back in the 1980s. Something like the Times Educational Supplement. These are the type of people who are firstline contacts for children with (undiagnosed or suspected) AS. She also did not write any easy to read books for parents of children with AS or teachers back in the 1980s. I strongly believe that keeping AS almost secret outside of an elite circle in the psychology community did a total injustice to children of the 1980s and early 1990s who were often misdiagnosed with behavioural problems and in some cases sent to unsuitable schools that caused more harm than leaving them in a mainstream school.
4. Who was working with Lorna Wing when she published the article who would have also known of its existence?
5. Psychological Medicine is a British journal but did AS only become mainstream and popularised around 1995 after the Americans came to realise that it exists? Most books and articles published in English about AS since 2000ish has been American.