Solving Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Guide for Frazzled Families

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Woodbine House, 2014 - Education - 146 pages
Do nightly struggles to get your child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to go to sleep and stay asleep leave you frazzled and frustrated? Pinpoint and solve the problems underlying sleep difficulties and improve your entire familys quality of life with the effective interventions found in this easy-to-understand and empathetic guide to good sleep. This book is based on a multi-year study of sleep in children with ASDs which concluded that parent training was the key to resolving childrens sleep problems, and that better sleep leads to improvements in anxiety, attention, and behaviour.

About the author (2014)

Terry Katz, a licensed psychologist, has worked with children with developmental disabilities and their families for over thirty years. She cofounded a sleep behavior clinic in 2009 and toileting clinic in 2011 for children with special needs at Children's Hospital Colorado. She is a co-author of Solving Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Woodbine House, 2014). Beth Ann Malow is board certified in both Clinical Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine, and is Professor of Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

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