What’s this “High” and “Low” functioning stuff?

  There's been lots of debate about using the terms “high” and “low” functioning to describe children and adults with disability, particularly children and adults on the autism spectrum. I don’t think there should be much debate, for the following five reasons – (especially the first one)! 1. Many adults with disability find these labels offensive 2. These labels genuinely have no medical or diagnostic criteria or validity 3. These terms have no actual use – they don’t share any…