Meaning of high-functioning | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Functioning or operating at a high level.
2. 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.
3. Of a person with autism, exhibiting relatively high cognitive function.

Examples

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

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

“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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