Innovative approaches that reflect changes in social expectations can help girls with autism form rewarding relationships with their peers.

Experts from various fields should work with parents to develop a standardized questionnaire for gut problems in people with autism.

Measures of adaptive functioning may better assess the ability of autistic people to meet daily demands than do intelligence tests.

Even short programs with a focus on mental health can train community health workers to help children with autism in Ethiopia and elsewhere.

Exposure to certain types of light at night may exacerbate sleep issues among people with autism.

Children with autism who have sleep problems are often distracted, hyperactive, irritable and aggressive.

Television characters with autism look dramatically different from the majority of people who have the condition.

Behavioral interventions and medications can help children with autism-related syndromes sleep better, but the treatments must be tailored to the cause of each child’s sleep disturbance.

Academic and social support can help students with autism thrive in institutions of higher education.

Autism researchers and funding agencies should turn their attention to sleep in autism — and its many connections to health, mood and behavior.