About the Authors

Julia Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Tang, Marita Falkmer, Chiara Horlin, Tele Tan, Sharmila Vaz, Torbjörn Falkmer

Affiliations School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Autism CRC), Long Pocket, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Marita Falkmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Tang, Marita Falkmer, Chiara Horlin, Tele Tan, Sharmila Vaz, Torbjörn Falkmer

Affiliations School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Education and Communication, CHILD programme, Institution of Disability Research Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden, Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Autism CRC), Long Pocket, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Chiara Horlin

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Tang, Marita Falkmer, Chiara Horlin, Tele Tan, Sharmila Vaz, Torbjörn Falkmer

Affiliation School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Tele Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Tang, Marita Falkmer, Chiara Horlin, Tele Tan, Sharmila Vaz, Torbjörn Falkmer

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Autism CRC), Long Pocket, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Sharmila Vaz

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Tang, Marita Falkmer, Chiara Horlin, Tele Tan, Sharmila Vaz, Torbjörn Falkmer

Affiliation School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Torbjörn Falkmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Tang, Marita Falkmer, Chiara Horlin, Tele Tan, Sharmila Vaz, Torbjörn Falkmer

T.Falkmer@curtin.edu.au

Affiliations School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences (IMH), Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University & Pain and Rehabilitation Centre, UHL, County Council, Linköping, Sweden, Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Autism CRC), Long Pocket, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT TF MF CH TT. Performed the experiments: JT MF CH SV. Analyzed the data: JT MF CH TF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT MF CH TF TT SV. Wrote the paper: JT MF CH TF TT SV.