“…The CBT-CSCA is, therefore, a social competence intervention applicable to people with different functional levels on the autism spectrum. It supports the practice of subtyping the autism spectrum according to IQ levels (AIF, BIF, and ID), which is an increasingly common practice in identifying phenotypic heterogeneity within ASD (Portolese et al, 2021;Toma, 2020) and a change from using an arbitrary high-vs. low-functioning dichotomy in the previous decade (Alvares et al, 2020). With the reported feasibility and effectiveness of the CBT-CSCA model on adolescents and young adults, the extension of its applicability to other age ranges, such as children or more mature adults, could be further explored.…”