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Edith Rachel Merritt Schaeffer (née Seville; November 3, 1914 – March 30, 2013) was a Christian author and co-founder of L'Abri, a Christian organization which hosts guests. [1] She was the wife of Francis Schaeffer , and the mother of Frank Schaeffer and three other children.
Grave-site of euthanasia children's victims from the Spiegelgrund clinic at Wien-Zentralfriedhof. The upper stone block reads (in German) "Never forgotten" and the lower stone block reads (in German) "In memory of the children and adolescents, who fell victim to NS euthanasia as "life unworthy of life" from 1940 to 1945 in the former children's hospital "Am Spiegelgrund".
Lorna Gladys Tolchard was born at Gillingham, Kent, to Royal Navy engineer Bernard Newberry Tolchard (1898–1968) and Gladys Ethel (died 1962), née Whittell. [1] [2] Following education at Chatham Grammar School for Girls, she commenced medical training at University College Hospital in 1949.
After being diagnosed with a painful degenerative disease, a 5-year-old girl made the decision to 'go to heaven' instead of the hospital.
Johann Friedrich Karl Asperger (/ ˈ æ s p ɜːr ɡ ər /, German: [hans ˈʔaspɛɐ̯ɡɐ]; 18 February 1906 – 21 October 1980 [1]) was an Austrian physician.Noted for his early studies on atypical neurology, specifically in children, he is the namesake of the former autism spectrum disorder Asperger syndrome.
Lorna Wing's February 1981 publication of the paper "Asperger's Syndrome: A Clinical Account" [220] greatly increased awareness of the existence of Hans Asperger's autism work. [308] [309] [48] Wing summarised Asperger's autism syndrome, and made two challenges to points he had made. She also provided six case studies of her own, and much ...
Asperger's 1940 work, Autistic psychopathy in childhood, [9] found that four of the 200 children studied [10] had difficulty with integrating themselves socially. Although their intelligence levels appeared normal, the children lacked nonverbal communication skills, failed to demonstrate empathy with their peers, and were physically clumsy.
The book mentioned on the RS noticeboard, Asperger's Children: the Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna does serve as another source. CatPath ( talk ) 19:22, 25 May 2018 (UTC) [ reply ] I just got done watching Professor Sheffer deliver a lecture on her book on C-SPAN ( link ), she's a history professor (specializing in German history) - 1st at ...