Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders

The center offers a wide range of diagnostic services. Some of our services include:

• Specialized in-depth pediatric sleep history and physical assessment
• Polysomnography (all-night sleep study including monitoring of EEG, cardiorespiratory and motor parameters, gastroesophageal reflux, and video)
• CPAP calibration (continuous positive airway pressure; for the treatment of sleep apnea)
• Multiple Sleep Latency Testing (daytime nap studies to assess excessive sleepiness)
• General laboratory testing
• Actigraphy (multi-week assessment of body movement as an indication of sleep/wake rhythms)

Our services to help treat and manage sleep disorders include:

• Behavioral treatments (using positive and negative reinforcement schemes help alter inappropriate habits and contributory patterns of child-parent interactions)
• Nighttime feeding adjustment
• Limit-setting techniques
• Support and anxiety relief
• Sleep schedule changes, sleep phase shifts, day/night redistribution of sleep times
• Sleep and wake promoting medication; adjustment of other medications
• Surgical referral (tonsillectomy & adenoidectomy, maxillo-facial surgery)
• Medical referral (gastroesophageal reflux , seizures, respiratory disorders, neuromuscular diseases, autism, developmental disorders)
• CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure)