high-support
high-support adjective: requiring a high level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.
Adjective
high-support (comparative more high-support, superlative most high-support)
- Requiring a high level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.
- "High support" autistic people meanwhile may be non-verbal and have more difficulties with fine motor skills, or any number of other difficulties that require a great deal of support to adapt to the neurotypical world.2019, Andrew Kirkconnel, "'Where Everyone Waddles Like Me': An Examination of the Autistic Community on Tumblr", thesis submitted to McMaster University, page 13
- In this regard, Participant 3 explained how the series initiated an interesting dialogue in episode 3 (Moon Ji-won & Yoo In-shik, 2022) by portraying how Attorney Young-woo’s autism was utilized by the prosecution in court as evidence to argue the reduced capacity of a high-support autistic...2022, Allegra Guizzon, "Extraordinary Attorney Woo: A Study into Perceived Representation of Autism by Autistic Women", thesis submitted to Erasmus University, page 34
- Antonyms:
- low-support
Antonyms of high-support
Forms of high-support
| comparative | more high-support |
|---|---|
| superlative | most high-support |
Questions about high-support
- What does high-support mean?
- High-support means requiring a high level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.
- What part of speech is high-support?
- High-support is an adjective.
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