Judith Joseph has spent most of her life building an impressive résumé. She is a board-certified psychiatrist, chair of the Women in Medicine Initiative for Columbia University’s Vagelos College of ...

The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health is a framework for organizing information on functioning and disability. Functioning, as a concept, ...

This is what the autism spectrum looks like. It is not a gradation from high to low functioning. Source: Jessica Penot, LPC If you are an autistic person who can hold a job and pay bills, you will ...

"The difference between high-functioning autism and low-functioning autism is that high-functioning means your deficits are ignored while low-functioning means your assets are ignored." —Laura ...