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What is ‘high-functioning’ in high-functioning autism?

Author(s) -

Guo Hui Xie

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

asian journal of interdisciplinary research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2581-8430

DOI - 10.34256/ajir2042

Subject(s) - high functioning autism , autism , psychology , diagnostic test , special education , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , pediatrics , autism spectrum disorder , mathematics education

In several diagnostic manuals of disabilities and disorders, High-Functioning Autism (HFA) is omitted and/or remains an unofficial diagnostic term. However, in 2007, the American Academy of Special Education Professionals has given it an official diagnostic code AU-4.00 in its Educator’s Diagnostic Manual of Disabilities and Disorders (EDM). This has rekindled research to re-look at HFA if it deserves to be given its own diagnostic code. Today, HFA refers to autistics who possess average/above-average intelligence and function in typical settings. This paper explores what ‘high-functioning’ is in the enigmatic condition of HFA.

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