TMRF is non govt organization, started with the motto of “serving for healthy mind” and working for the enhancement of quality life of the differently challenged people especially Children with Autism. TMRF keenly working with the betterment of children with Autism as well as their parents. To achieve our ultimate objective of inclusion of our children in the society along with other children. We simultaneously work towards creating awareness, understanding and acceptance of Autism.

        Dr. Leo Kanner introduced the label early infantile autism in 1943. Honoring Dr.Leo Kanner for his work towards Autism, TMRF instituting the Dr.Leokanner Award for best individual and best organization since 2008, those who are dedicating their service to children with Autism, their families and Soceity.

Leo Kanner (prnc. Conner) (June 13, 1894 – April 3, 1981) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and physician known for his work related to autism.

        Kanner was born in Kalikow, Austria. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1913, his studies broken by service with the Austrian Army in World War I, finally receiving his M.D. in 1921. He emigrated to the United States in 1924 to take a position as an Assistant Physician at the State Hospital in Yankton County, South Dakota. In 1930 he was selected to develop the first child psychiatry service in a pediatric hospital at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He became Associate Professor of Psychiatry in 1933

        He was the first physician in the United States to be identified as a child psychiatrist and his first textbook, Child Psychiatry in 1935, was the first English language textbook to focus on the psychiatric problems of children. His seminal 1943 paper, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact", together with the work of Hans Asperger, forms the basis of the modern study of autism.

He became Director of Child Psychiatry in 1957. He retired in 1959 but remained active until his death at the age of 87.