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Understanding and reducing sleep problems for children with a genetic syndrome webinar review

A recording of the webinar is now available if you’d like to catch up in full. Introduction Professor Caroline Richards opened the webinar by introducing herself and the Cerebra Network for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. The Cerebra Network is a group of Psychologists and researchers that focus on doing research to improve the lives of children who have severe and complex needs and their families. Professor Richards ...
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Sleep Advice Service - Cerebra for children with brain conditions.

Professionals Sleep Training – Essential

This OCN L3 accredited training course will give you an introduction to sleep, and the beginnings of the ability to support children with additional needs with their sleep. What does the course involve? This is an online course - Essential Foundations of Children's Sleep Health and Family Collaboration. The course contains online sessions to give you the base learning - approximately 10 hours of active ...
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Support and understanding from our Sleep Advice Service

Emma introduces us to her son Arthur and explains how our Sleep Advice Service was such a support. Tell us a bit about Arthur Arthur's favourite film is 'Inside Out' - he will watch this 4 or 5 times a day. His favourite emotion in the film is Disgust. I think this is because she dislikes broccoli and she is green which is his favourite ...
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Falling to sleep alone and waking in the night

Mum Gabby got in touch to tell us how her three year old son Theodore was not only struggling to fall asleep on his own but was also waking during the night. She explains how our Sleep Advice Service helped. “Our son Theo loves horses, cars, the farm and rockets – he’s not too keen on having his hair washed, loud noises and being told ...
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Professor Caroline Richards

Professor Caroline Richards, Professor of Neurodevelopmental Conditions, is a Clinical Psychologist and researcher at the University of Birmingham. Caroline leads our programme of sleep and behaviour research. This research will help us to understanding why sleep problems occur in children with intellectual disability, autism and rare genetic syndromes, and help families to find solutions to these sleep difficulties. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/psychology/richards-caroline.aspx 
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Weighted Blankets for Sleep Difficulties in Children with Neurodevelopmental Conditions

The aim of this factsheet is to briefly summarise current scientific research about whether weighted blankets improve sleep in children with neurodevelopmental conditions. This factsheet is not intended to replace the advice of expert clinicians, but we hope that this summary of evidence will help parents and carers who are considering whether a weighted blanket might be appropriate for their child.
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Behavioural Interventions

For sleep problems in people with an intellectual disability This is a summary of an academic research study that looked at lots of other studies into behavioural interventions for sleep problems to see if they were effective.
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University of Birmingham Sleep Annual Report

Understanding and reducing sleep disorders in children with developmental delay lay summary.
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Positive Family Connections

What is Positive Family Connections? Positive Family Connections is a new online 6 week programme for families who have a child with additional developmental needs (learning disability, autism, or both) aged between 8-13. The programme aims to enhance positive connections between family members. Our relationships with those closest to us are key for the wellbeing of the whole family and that is no different when ...
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