“…One of the clinical applications of the ICF is the linking process of the most commonly used instruments in every health field to ICF categories, and also to specific ICF-CS relevant to neuro-developmental conditions as ASD (D'Arcy et al, 2022;Hayden-Evans et al, 2022). Previous studies have shown the usefulness of this linking process in analyzing measurements used for diagnosing children with ASD such as the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2, Lord et al, 1989) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI-R, Rutter et al, 2003a) (Castro et al, 2013;Black et al, 2023) as well as the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT, Robins et al, 2001), the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ, Rutter et al, 2003b) the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS, Schopler et al, 2010) (Black et al, 2023) and typical measures of functioning used in the assessment of ASD such as the ABAS-3 (Harrison & Oakland, 2015) or the VINELAND-3 (Sparrow et al, 2005) (Hayden-Evans et al, 2022. This process enables researchers to identify and compare the meaningful units included in different assessment tools with the ICF and provides information about the functional aspects covered by a specific instrument for a health condition (Fayed et al, 2012).…”