Children's sleep disorders symptoms are often times different than the symptoms of an adult. It is very important for parents and caregivers to be aware of this.

GENERAL INFORMATION, ARTICLES AND BOOKS ON CHILDREN AND SLEEP DISORDERS

• Pediatrics Sleep Disorders - University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Department of Neurology Sleep Disorders Center - Brief overview on assessment of sleep disorders, the actual sleep study and treatment.

• Healthy Kids Index
  • What Parents Need to Know About Bedwetting
  • SIDS: Sudden and Silent
  • How Much Sleep is Enough for My Child?
  • Things That Go Wrong in the Night: Sleep Disorders

• Baby's Sleep Guide - from the Babycenter
  • Parents Sleep Deprivation
  • Babies, sleep, and transitions
  • Baby sleeping through the night
  • Understanding baby's sleep patterns
  • Changes in baby's sleeping Habits

• Sleep Trivia - Children & Sleep, Helpful Information for Parents - From Land & Sky

• Pediatric Sleep Disorders - Sleep Rx

• Understanding Sleep Disorders: Signs & treatments of common childhood sleep disorders - From Disney

• Childrens Sleep Problems - The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Parents Place - Sleep Concerns - Ask the Pediatrician

• Sleep Patterns in children - Loyola University Health System
  • Sleep patterns in newborns
  • sleeplessness in kids

• Your Child and Sleep

• Childhood Insomnia - Sleep Hygiene

• School Start Time Study (4/17/98)

• Students Of All Ages May Be Missing a Key Ingredient To Good Grades: Adequate Sleep (Sorry - This link not working due to their web site changing -- I will try to find where the article can be accessed. 4/17/98)

• Sleep Deprivation Induces Later School Start Times

• Research Underway: sleep vital to a child's recovery - Shriners Hospital

• The Latest Trend in Childrearing is the Family Bed

• Nurturing Online - Natural Parenting Site - Has some articles on co-sleeping

• The Book Well - Books for parents and children about sleep and dreams

• Kids' Health Online -- Kid's Health Matters Reports contains these sleep-related articles on: Back to sleep campaign, bedtime fears, bed-wetting, sleep disorders and SIDS.

• Things That Go Wrong in the Night - Information on Infant Apnea, Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Sleepwalking, Nightmares, Night Terrors, Bedwetting and Rhythmic Disorders.

• Baby and Child Place

• Childrens Neurological Disorders Program

• Parenthoodweb -- How to Get Baby to Sleep Through the Night

• A Better Bedtime Plan

BULLETIN BOARDS - PARENTS SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS

• Bulletin Boards at Parents Place.com - Parenting & Sleep

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