Sleep_Disorders

Sleep Disorders Child Sleep Disorders: Is Your Child at Risk' Recent research has proven that children just are not getting the sleep they need these days. Kids today seem to be doing poorer in school and have less attention spans. Most parents are not aware of a common problem effecting thousands of children in this country: sleep disorders. Parents often fail to follow there children’s sleeping patterns which can result in some serious side effects if that child has a sleep disorder. A study done at Tulane University in New Orleans studied about 300 first graders that preformed poorly in school. They found that 18 per cent showed signs of a sleeping problem. The percentage of children with bad grades found to have sleeping problems was six to nine times higher than found in a previous study done over all of the childhood population. (The Toronto Star). Most people believe that sleep disorders only affect adults but in reality 30% of all children have some sort of sleep disorder. (Burcum). Sleep disorders are defined as a group of syndromes characterized by disturbance in the patient’s amount of sleep, quality or timing of sleep, or sleep, disorders, child, children, night, disorder, about, during, terrors, sept, child’s, nightmares, 2001, sleepwalking, apnea, should, problem, occur, time, problems, parents, often, common, stages, per, parent, 12, talking, stage, occurs, kryger, kids, episodes, while, times