high-functioning

Functioning or operating at a high level.

Adjective

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. - 1978, Allen E. Bergen with Sol Louis Garfield, Handbook of...
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... - 1986 January 5, R.M. Fox, D.R. Bechtel, C. Bird, J. Livesay, R. Bittle, “A...
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...

From high + functioning.