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This is, in part, due to the fact that available tools do not comprehensively capture the specific sleep phenotypes in autism. The Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children (SDSC) is one of the highest ranked pediatric sleep assessment tools, yet it is scarcely used in autism research. Consequently, the utility of the SDSC for characterizing sleep disturbances in autism remains unknown. This study explored the factor structure of the SDSC in a sample of 513 autistic youth, aged 3\u201318\u2009years (mean: 10.5\u2009years; SD: 3.7; 18.7% female) drawn from the Healthy Brain Network secondary dataset. Fit of the previously derived SDSC factor structure was appraised using the confirmatory application of the exploratory structural equation modeling. 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