Sleep Advice Service

We understand that if you have one child that doesn’t sleep, the whole family suffers. Our range of sleep services will help your child – and everyone in your family – get a good night’s sleep.

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Sleep Advice Service

We understand that if you have one child that doesn’t sleep, the whole family suffers. Our range of sleep services will help your child – and everyone in your family – get a good night’s sleep.

Sleep tips

Our Sleep Tips booklet introduces and explains different techniques for you to try that may improve your child's sleep. It covers ten main topics including bedtime routines, daytime napping, comfort objects and moving bedtime backwards or forwards. It gives lots of illustrated hints and tips for putting the techniques into practice.

Sleep advice service

Our dedicated sleep service is here to help.

Alongside our Sleep Tips booklet and relevant guides, we also offer one-to-one support. This involves completing an application form for your child and two weeks’ worth of sleep diaries which we'll send out to you as long as you come under our criteria for support.

If you need one-to-one support and are a parent/carer or a professional referring a family with their consent to having sleep support, please click the button below to contact the sleep service.

If you have a question or query about our services please email us at [email protected].

Our guides

Our Sleep Guide provides detailed information on how you can tackle issues to improve your family’s sleep and advice on dealing with specific sleep problems.

Our Anxiety guide describes common signs of anxiety and gives you information on how to spot signs of anxiety in children with intellectual disability.

Our Sensory Processing Guide outlines the most common sensory processing difficulties, and provides an overview of sensory assessments, interventions and strategies.

How well did you sleep last night?

Vanessa explains what it’s like to have a child with a brain condition who doesn’t sleep well and how hard this is for the whole family.

Sleep seminars

Our online sleep seminars aim to give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to deal with sleep issues so the whole family can get a good night’s sleep.

Our sleep research partner

The Cerebra Network for Neurodevelopmental Disorders is a collaborative and dynamic network of researchers led by Dr Caroline Richards (University of Birmingham), Dr Jo Moss (University of Surrey), Dr Jane Waite (University of Aston) and Dr Hayley Crawford (University of Warwick). Network research hubs located at each university will focus on key themes that are central to improving the lives of individuals with severe and complex needs and their families including research into sleep, atypical autism and mental health.

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