Meaning of high-support | Babel Free

Definitions

Requiring a high level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.

Examples

“"High support" autistic people meanwhile may be non-verbal and have more difficulties with fine motor skills, or any number of other difficulties that require a great deal of support to adapt to the neurotypical world.”

“In this regard, Participant 3 explained how the series initiated an interesting dialogue in episode 3 (Moon Ji-won & Yoo In-shik, 2022) by portraying how Attorney Young-woo’s autism was utilized by the prosecution in court as evidence to argue the reduced capacity of a high-support autistic defendant.”

“In 2020, Eric Parsa, a high-support autistic young man, died after being restrained and sat on for 9 minutes by Jefferson Parish police in Louisiana.”

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