Donald Gray Triplett was an American known for being the first person diagnosed with autism. He was first diagnosed by Leo Kanner, and was labeled as “Case 1”.
Donald Triplett obituary
Donald E. Triplett, of Chillicothe, passed away Thursday afternoon, July 8, 2021, at the Frankfort Regional Medical Center in Kentucky following an extended illness.
In October 1938 Triplett was examined by Austrian child psychiatrist Leo Kanner at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Kanner was baffled by the boy’s symptoms and, though he noted some similarities to schizophrenia, was unable to diagnose him.
Services: 11 am Monday, June 19, 2023, FOREST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Visitation will be held from 9:30 am till the service time at the Church.
The interment will be at Eastern Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made to the Forest Presbyterian Church Building Fund 337 East First Street Forest, MS 39074.
Note: A full obituary will be added soon.
OTT & LEE Funeral Home of Forest is honored to serve the Triplett family.