Diagnosing high-functioning autism The current diagnosis procedure involves a clinician asking questions about a person’s experiences and making assessments about their behaviour.

AUTISM is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people socialise, communicate and interact with the world. Autistic ...

A term often used in both clinical and social settings to denote the capabilities of individuals on the autism spectrum should be consigned to the history books, researchers say. “High functioning ...

Autism researchers from the Telethon Kids Institute have called for the term "high functioning autism" to be abandoned because of the misleading and potentially harmful expectations it creates ...

“High-functioning autism” isn’t an official medical term or diagnosis. It’s an informal one some people use when they talk about people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, who can speak ...

This idea of “high functioning” autism is rejected by many autistic adults and some researchers. We need to think back to that constellation of traits.

To clarify the possible disruption of Glu metabolism in adults with high-functioning autism, we performed a magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) study investigating the anterior cingulate cortex ...