Discovering Sukhareva

Highlighting the writings and contributions of Soviet child psychiatrist Grunya Sukhareva.



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Welcome! This website is about Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva, a pioneering researcher into autism. As the earliest known person to document autism in children, her work has been instrumental to the understanding and study of autism within scientific literature.

Please use the links to the left to explore the site's content, including Sukhareva's pioneering early research articles in Russian and German, bibliographies of additional resources on her life and work, neurodiversity, and the history of autism, and a timeline of key moments in early autism research.


Portrait of G.E. Sukhareva