"High-functioning autism" describes autistic people who can complete some daily tasks and blend into society. People with high-functioning autism can have trouble starting conversations and ...

As director of services at Y’s Owl Maclure Co-operative Centre, Ford’s role is to work with people with high-functioning autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. She said her agency is invited in to government ...

February 18, 2010 — Inhaling the hormone oxytocin appears to improve social interactions in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HF-ASD), new research suggests. The study showed that ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder now affects approximately 1 in 31 children in the United States, according to the CDC’s 2025 ADDM Network report. Yet despite decades of ...

"I was actually diagnosed last year as high functioning, so we are just a family full of autism," said Batts. "We all have a different story, we all have different levels, different challenges every ...

Mild autism is unofficially used to describe level 1 autism, or high-functioning autism. People with mild autism might not get diagnosed until adolescence or adulthood because their traits are subtle.

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