Hektoen International

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Tag: Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva

  • Grunya Sukhareva and the early observation of autistic behavior

    Martine MussiesUtrecht, The Netherlands Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva was born and trained in Kyiv, Ukraine. By the early 1920s she had moved to Moscow, where she worked in a school for children with neurological difficulties and began keeping meticulous records of her young patients. She noted their difficulties alongside their gifts: a boy who had taught…