{"id":782,"date":"2014-06-10T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/?p=782"},"modified":"2014-06-10T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T09:22:17","slug":"lorna-wing-1928-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/06\/10\/lorna-wing-1928-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorna Wing 1928 &#8211; 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colleagues will be saddened to hear about the death of Lorna Wing on Friday 6<sup>th<\/sup> June. \u00a0Lorna began her work in autism in the 1960s. As a parent of a child who had autism she helped to found the National Autistic Society in 1962, and dedicated her life to advancing understanding of this condition and helping families. Her ground breaking early\u00a0 epidemiological work in the 1970s with Judith Gould led to the identification of autism as a \u2018triad\u2019 of impairments. \u00a0Lorna introduced the concept of a \u2018spectrum\u2019 of autism to the field in the 1980s, emphasizing an approach to autism of a broad dimensional condition affecting all ages and abilities and found alongside other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions. \u00a0In the 1981 she wrote the first paper on Asperger\u2019s work and<br \/>\nintroduced the term Asperger\u2019s Syndrome. \u00a0For her, autism was firstly a developmental disorder that could only be understood in the context of a child or adult\u2019s social and cognitive developmental history. She was an extraordinary inspiration and support\u00a0 for families, individuals with autism, clinicians and researchers alike and a wonderful and generous mentor and friend.<br \/>\nFull obituary:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/10886838\/Lorna-Wing-obituary.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/10886838\/Lorna-Wing-obituary.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2014\/06\/lorna-wing3_2936049c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-783\" alt=\"lorna-wing3_2936049c\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2014\/06\/lorna-wing3_2936049c-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2014\/06\/lorna-wing3_2936049c-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2014\/06\/lorna-wing3_2936049c.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleagues will be saddened to hear about the death of Lorna Wing on Friday 6th June. \u00a0Lorna began her work in autism in the 1960s. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/06\/10\/lorna-wing-1928-2014\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43796,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}