“…Given the cultural shift in definitions of autism (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), social and educational inclusion (UNESCO, 1994), children's rights (UNCRC, 2001), rights of persons with disabilities generally (UNCRPD, 2006), autism awareness (Dillenburger et al., 2013, 2017), social meaning of autism (Dubin, 2011; Mitchell, 2019; Singer, 1998), and autism self‐advocacy (Leaf et al., 2021), most children with autism now are educated in mainstream schools (Department of Health, 2020; Dillenburger et al., 2016) and school placement can no longer be used as a main criterion for evaluating interventions. Where other indirect measures, such as IQ tests, are used there should be consistency across studies.…”