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Maya K. Malkani; Carmela F. Pestell; Andrew M. C. Sheridan; Alison J. Crichton; Georgia C. Horsburgh; Romola S. Bucks – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2022
Objective: To evaluate intervention characteristics and components within behavioral sleep interventions in school-aged children with ADHD and examine evidence related to effectiveness. Method: A systematic review was conducted using PsycINFO, Embase, MEDLINE, PubMed, and OpenGray. The subsequent meta-analysis used sleep outcomes to produce…
Descriptors: Sleep, Intervention, Children, Early Adolescents
Harper, Lynette; McAnelly, Su; Walshe, Ian; Ooms, Ann; Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene M. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: People with intellectual disabilities are more likely to experience sleep problems, which can affect quality of life, physical health, mental health and well-being. Methods: An integrative literature review was conducted to investigate what is known about behavioural sleep disturbances in people with an intellectual disability. The…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Sleep, Quality of Life, Health
McLay, Laurie; France, Karyn; Blampied, Neville; van Deurs, Jenna; Hunter, Jolene; Knight, Jacqui; Hastie, Brent; Carnett, Amarie; Woodford, Emma; Gibbs, Rosina; Lang, Russell – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
This case analysis involved 41 clinical cases wherein children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) received a behavioral intervention for sleep problems. This study intended to (a) evaluate the efficacy of function-based behavioral sleep treatments; (b) elucidate variables impacting response to such interventions; (c) inform…
Descriptors: Sleep, Children, Adolescents, Autism
Wang, Feifei – College Student Journal, 2021
Over the last decade, sleep quality becomes serious issue in academic research. There was an increasing number of interventions conducted to improve sleep quality. Objective: This review aims to provide a better understanding on how the intervention on sleep quality develops and to explore the effectiveness of those intervention strategies among…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sleep, Health Behavior, College Students
McLay, Laurie; Sutherland, Dean; Machalicek, Wendy; Sigafoos, Jeff – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2020
Issues with sleep onset and maintenance are common among many children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. A lack of experienced practitioners, financial cost, and practical issues associated with providing parent coaching in the family home during evenings pose a number of barriers to successful sleep intervention. Telehealth…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Intervention, Sleep, Children
McCormick, Colin R. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
In 2002, Fan and his colleagues developed the Attention Network Test (ANT), a cognitive tool that provides a score for each of the attentional networks (alerting, orienting, and executive functioning). Since publication, this study has been cited over 3,500 times. The authors state one of the indicated uses of this tool is to measure how different…
Descriptors: Life Style, Tests, Scores, Executive Function
Hollway, Jill A.; Aman, Michael G. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Sleep disturbance is a common problem in children with developmental disabilities. Effective pharmacologic interventions are needed to ameliorate sleep problems that persist when behavior therapy alone is insufficient. The aim of the present study was to provide an overview of the quantity and quality of pharmacologic research targeting sleep in…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Behavior Modification, Sleep, Drug Therapy
Karraker, Katherine – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
This literature review focuses on factors found to be associated with individual differences in infant night waking. Infant night waking that requires parent intervention to assist the infant to return to sleep is of special concern to parents because of the sleep deprivation and fragmentation that they experience. Both intrinsic and extrinsic…
Descriptors: Sleep, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Modification

Kuhn, Brett R.; Mayfield, Joan W.; Kuhn, Robert H. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1999
Provides guidelines for counselors interested in developing their own assessment procedure to evaluate child and adolescent sleep disturbance. Guidelines include reviewing the developmental and medical history, screening for parental psychopathology, obtaining a child behavior rating scale and sleep diary, and conducting a semistructured clinical…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Modification, Child Behavior, Children
Morrison, Jack R. – 1983
Adolescent underachievers may be, in fact, victims of insomnia or other types of sleep disorders. Insomnia is a greatly overlooked affliction that affects approximately 13% of the adolescent population, creating daytime side-effects that could impair intellectual functioning, such as imposing learning constraints. Poor sleepers among the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Modification, Counseling Techniques, Fatigue (Biology)
Lancioni, Giulio E.; O'Reilly, Mark F.; Basili, Gabriella – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1999
A review of 14 studies on treatment strategies for sleep problems in individuals with severe mental retardation found the following treatments had been used: sleep scheduling, bedtime routine plus gradual distancing of parents, extinction, bedtime fading with or without response cost, chronotherapy, and melatonin. Results of treatments are…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Children

Roane, Henry S.; Piazza, Cathleen C.; Bodnar, Laura E.; Zimmerman, Kerri L. – Infants and Young Children, 2000
This article reviews the extant literature on the occurrence of sleep disorders in children with developmental disabilities. Various assessment and treatment strategies for sleep difficulties are examined and issues are discussed that may influence treatment development as well as the best practices for addressing sleep difficulties. (Contains…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation Methods

Morrison, J. R.; Storey, Brian – Clearing House, 1986
Discusses the causes of insomnia, its detection, and various types of treatment. (SRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Alcoholism, Behavior Change