Article: Sleep problems of parents of typically developing children and parents of children with autism.(Report)

ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION (2004), children in the United States and their parents are not getting enough sleep (see also National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, 2003). Researchers have indicated that sleep problems occur in 11-69% of children (Bruni et al., 1996; National Sleep Foundation; Pollock, 1994; Stein, Mendelsohn, Obermeyer, Amromin, & Benca, 2001; see also Mindell, 1993). These sleep difficulties adversely affect children's daytime behavior. For example, researchers have shown that children's sleep problems affect their working memory (Steenari et al., 2003), increase their rate of injury (Owens, Fernando, & McGuinn, 2005), and negatively ...

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