About the Authors

Darren Hedley

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

D.Hedley@latrobe.edu.au

Affiliation Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mirko Uljarević

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Stanford Autism Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ru Ying Cai

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aspect Research Centre for Autism Practice, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Simon M. Bury

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mark A. Stokes

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

David W. Evans

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DH is supported by a Suicide Prevention Australia National Suicide Prevention Research fellowship. MU is supported by a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council (DE180100632). DWE declares that he receives funding from Roche Pharmaceutical for consulting on the use of the Childhood Routines Inventory-Revised (CRI-R). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.