Limitations
intellectual disabilities
While the study provides novel insights into the effects of OT administration in school-aged children with ASD, the following limitations are noted. First, the current study included a relatively strict age range of pre-pubertal, school-aged children with ASD limiting generalizability to other age ranges. Future studies, using larger cohorts, are warranted to further explore the identified effects, also including understudied populations within the ASD spectrum, such as children with co-occurring mild-to-severe intellectual disabilities (i.e., the most common co-occurring condition with a prevalence ranging between 30 and 40%) [