About the Authors

Melissa Scott

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Scott, Andrew Jacob, Delia Hendrie, Richard Parsons, Sonya Girdler, Torbjörn Falkmer, Marita Falkmer

melissa.scott@curtin.edu.au

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

Andrew Jacob

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Scott, Andrew Jacob, Delia Hendrie, Richard Parsons, Sonya Girdler, Torbjörn Falkmer, Marita Falkmer

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

Delia Hendrie

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Scott, Andrew Jacob, Delia Hendrie, Richard Parsons, Sonya Girdler, Torbjörn Falkmer, Marita Falkmer

Affiliation School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Richard Parsons

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Scott, Andrew Jacob, Delia Hendrie, Richard Parsons, Sonya Girdler, Torbjörn Falkmer, Marita Falkmer

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

Sonya Girdler

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Scott, Andrew Jacob, Delia Hendrie, Richard Parsons, Sonya Girdler, Torbjörn Falkmer, Marita Falkmer

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

Torbjörn Falkmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Scott, Andrew Jacob, Delia Hendrie, Richard Parsons, Sonya Girdler, Torbjörn Falkmer, Marita Falkmer

Affiliations School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism (Autism CRC), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Science (IMH), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Marita Falkmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Scott, Andrew Jacob, Delia Hendrie, Richard Parsons, Sonya Girdler, Torbjörn Falkmer, Marita Falkmer

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

Competing Interests

All authors have had full access to the data, analysis and writing, revision and editing has jointly been done. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MS AJ DH SG TF MF. Data curation: MS AJ DH RP. Formal analysis: DH RP. Funding acquisition: MS DH TF MF. Investigation: AJ MS MF. Methodology: MS AJ DH RP SG TF MF. Project administration: MS AJ DH SG TF MF. Supervision: DH SG TF MF. Validation: MS AJ DH RP SG TF MF. Visualization: MS DH SG MF. Writing – original draft: MS AJ DH RP TF MF. Writing – review & editing: MS DH RP SG MF.