high-functioning

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.

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...

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 autism.