About the Authors

Craig Thompson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

craig.thompson@curtin.edu.au

Current address: School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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

Sven Bölte

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Bölte, Torbjörn Falkmer, Sonya Girdler

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet (KIND), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliations Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism (Autism CRC), Long Pocket, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Pediatric Neuropsychiatry Unit, Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet (KIND), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center for Psychiatry Research, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden

Torbjörn Falkmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Bölte, Torbjörn Falkmer, Sonya Girdler

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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

Sonya Girdler

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Bölte, Torbjörn Falkmer, Sonya Girdler

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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

Competing Interests

Sven Bölte Bölte discloses that he has in the last 5 years acted as an author, consultant or lecturer for Shire, Medice, Roche, Eli Lilly, Prima Psychiatry, GLGroup, System Analytic, Ability Partner, Kompetento, Expo Medica, and Prophase. He receives royalties for text books and diagnostic tools from Huber/Hogrefe, Kohlhammer and UTB. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.