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What does high-functioning mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word high-functioning? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Functioning or operating at a high level.
  2. (psychology) Able to function in society; not greatly affected by disability or illness.
  3. (psychology) Showing relatively high cognitive function.
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They also provide a psychopharmacology clinic, a social skills group for adolescents with Asperger's Disorder or high-functioning autism, and public lectures for parents on medical aspects of autism.
Nowadays, ten times that many children are diagnosed with an autism-spectrum disorder, many of them at the high-functioning Asperger's end.
This modern school has many excellent facilities such as a high-functioning computer lab and library with Internet connection.
Germany is repeatedly held up in the literature as a model of a high-functioning apprenticeship training system.
Crucial to a high-functioning team, feedback needs to be delivered in a way that will inspire, not alienate.
They may have a nonverbal learning disability, Asperger's syndrome, high-functioning autism, mild retardation or traumatic brain damage.

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