No single effective intervention exists for individuals with high-functioning autism.

In 2009 he revealed his son had high-functioning autism.

In fact, a person with high-functioning autism usually has average or above average intelligence.

For example, a child who is diagnosed with high-functioning autism today may have been thought to simply be odd or strange 30 years ago.

She showed promising biotic ability early on, and had high-functioning autism.

A case series on the social thinking training of mainstreamed secondary school students with high-functioning autism.

High-functioning autism is characterized by features very similar to those of Asperger syndrome.

People with high-functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome are often able to attend college and hold down a job.

At the age of three, he was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of high-functioning autism.

High-functioning autism is at one end of the ASD spectrum.

But when high-functioning autism was diagnosed in their elder daughter, Ms. Peroune's film career took a different turn.

A gifted programmer with high-functioning autism (specifically dyspraxia) initially working for Microsoft.

Cases of autistic spectrum disorders, including Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism, are skyrocketing.

Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism are particular targets of the theory that social factors determine what it means to be autistic.

However, questions remain concerning many aspects of AS; whether it should be a separate condition from high-functioning autism is a fundamental issue requiring further study.

Further differences in features between people with high-functioning autism and those with Asperger syndrome include the following:

There are many other comorbidities, or the presence of one or more disorders in addition to the primary disorder, associated with high-functioning autism.

It requires the attention and dedication of the individual with high-functioning autism as well as the individual overseeing the progress.

Daniel Tammet is a savant said to have Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism.

The Priory Group also manages schools, some for students with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism.

People with PLI often share additional characteristics consistent with high-functioning autism.

Individuals with autism spectrum disorders, including high-functioning autism, have a very high risk of developing symptoms of anxiety.

Because Asperger's syndrome is mild compared to other autism spectrum disorders, some doctors call it "high-functioning autism."

Jacob Hunt is eighteen years old and has Asperger's syndrome, which is a form of high-functioning autism.

The differences from other forms of autism have led many psychiatrists to consider high-functioning autism as similar to or the same as Asperger's syndrome.

But a difference in the high-functioning alcoholic, Benton said, is the power of the denial.

You can be a high-functioning workaholic much more easily than a high-functioning alcoholic.

He is a high-functioning alcoholic who chronically arrives late to work and is on the verge of being fired.

He became a high-functioning alcoholic.

Experts call these people "functional alcoholics" or "high-functioning alcoholics."

Though several characters on the show are portrayed as high-functioning alcoholics, Jack appears to be the only one who is chemically dependent on alcohol.

A high-functioning alcoholic (HFA) is a person that maintains jobs and relationships while exhibiting alcoholism.

Here, director Robert Zemeckis smartly capitalises on Washington's easy-going star quality to show how effortlessly likeable this high-functioning alcoholic is.

In a May 2014 interview with GQ magazine, Tatum stated that he drinks too much and that he is a high-functioning alcoholic.

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Stark's also a high-functioning alcoholic, and sometimes he loses control — as he did in the second "Iron Man" movie, getting so drunk that he started destroying his own mansion.

Benton, a recovering alcoholic and the author of "Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic," appeared on The Early Show Tuesday to talk about this face of alcoholism.

A high-functioning alcoholic (HFA) is clinically defined as someone who is able to maintain their "outside life" – such as job, home, family and friendships, all while drinking alcoholically.

Knapp won wide acclaim for Drinking: A Love Story (1996), which described her life as a "high-functioning alcoholic" and remained on the New York Times best-seller list for several weeks.

Its detectives are not brilliant, semi-autistic types; high-functioning alcoholics; or Bergmanesque depressives haunted by dark personal traumas (although the main investigator is so consumed by the job that she barely ever changes her sweater).

In recovery from alcoholism for the past five years, her book, Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic, published in the US in March, tells of her descent into alcoholism and her subsequent recovery.

But more important is the portrait Ms. Knapp offers of what she calls "the high-functioning alcoholic": "Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so."

You can still be an alcoholic even though you have a great "outside life," with a job that pays well, home, family, and friendships and social bonds, says Sarah Allen Benton, a licensed mental health counselor and author of Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic.

In "Drinking" Ms. Knapp wrote about the disturbing incongruities of her life as what she called a "high-functioning alcoholic": she was an award-winning journalist, an Ivy League graduate from a well-to-do New England family and by all appearances a happy, healthy and successful young woman.