high-functioning

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Functioning or operating at a high level.

   • The high-functioning therapists were found to have a greater tendency to confront patients and, when they did so, confronted them with their resources.
2. 2

   Of a person with a developmental or intellectual disability or mental illness, able to…

   Of a person with a developmental or intellectual disability or mental illness, able to function in society; not greatly affected by a disability or illness.

   • A unit wide behavioral programming system for high functioning mentally retarded clients who displayed maladaptive behavioral excesses...
3. 3

   Of a person with autism, exhibiting relatively high cognitive function.

   • Analysis of Wechsler IQ test scores for high-functioning autistic children and adults with Verbal and Full Scale IQ≥70 only partially supports previous contentions about the presence of a distinct profile of scores in autism.

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