A new study suggests that the total sleep duration in autistic kids is shorter and punctuated by more frequent waking at night compared to their non-autistic peers and the poor quality of sleep may affect their daytime learning and behavior. Disrupted sleep patterns have been linked to autism before, but the quality of the evidence accumulated to date has often been compromised by small sample size, lack of agreed definitions, and poor comparability of study participants. ...Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Autistic Kids Struggle With Poor Sleep Quality Which may Affect Their Learning and Behavior
A new study suggests that the total sleep duration in autistic kids is shorter and punctuated by more frequent waking at night compared to their non-autistic peers and the poor quality of sleep may affect their daytime learning and behavior. Disrupted sleep patterns have been linked to autism before, but the quality of the evidence accumulated to date has often been compromised by small sample size, lack of agreed definitions, and poor comparability of study participants. ...
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