Annette Estes is a psychologist and a Research Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington. She is the Director of the University of Washington Autism Center and holds the Susan & Richard Fade Endowed Chair. Dr. Estes has conducted intervention studies for very young children with early signs of autism and leads the behavioral assessment core for a national network studying brain and behavioral development of infants at risk for autism.  These two lines of research lead her to the study of sleep in autism spectrum disorders.  She is evaluating the relationship of early brain and behavioral development to school-age sleep problems in children with autism spectrum disorder and working to support healthy sleep in children with autism spectrum disorder and their families.