Children who have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep or who experience restless sleep, snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness or persistent bedwetting may have an underlying sleep disorder.
The Sleep Medicine Department at Riley Children's Health is the only American Academy of Sleep Medicine-accredited sleep program exclusively for children in Indiana. Board certified sleep medicine specialists evaluate children and work with your child's primary care doctor to develop an individualized treatment plan. We provide comprehensive care through a team of specialists that includes doctors with additional training in pediatric pulmonology, pediatric neurology and child psychology. Our team also includes dedicated nurse coordinators, respiratory therapists and certified sleep educators.
Symptoms of sleep disorders can include:
- Regular snoring or difficulty breathing while sleeping
- Recurrent nightmares or unusual behaviors during sleep, such as sleepwalking
- Repeated difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
- Excessive daytime sleepiness
- Restlessness that prevents your child from falling or staying asleep
If your child has any of these symptoms or if you think he or she has a sleep problem, the first step is an evaluation by your child's primary care doctor. The doctor may refer you to our sleep medicine specialists or behavioral sleep specialist for issues that require more intensive care and management. If there are more complicated sleep problems, your child may receive care in the following areas:
- Insomnia. We thoroughly evaluate your child’s condition to identify factors contributing to insomnia. We will work with your child’s primary care doctor and family member taking care of the child to develop an individualized treatment plan.
- CPAP. We provide continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy to treat breathing conditions such as sleep apnea in children. For some cases, a sleep psychologist will facilitate acceptance of therapy when this is a challenge.
- Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program. A behavioral sleep medicine specialist will help address psychological and behavioral factors disrupting your child’s sleep.
- Sleep Lab. We can monitor your child while he or she sleeps using advanced technology to help diagnose sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.
Our sleep specialists are also experienced in managing the respiratory issues of neuromuscular conditions and Down syndrome.
Conditions & Services
Conditions Treated
Our pediatric specialists provide patient- and family-centered care for most related conditions. The links below provide more specific information about some, but not all, of the conditions that we treat.
Services Offered
We offer a number of different Sleep Medicine services. Below are some, but not all, of the services that we provide. If you have a question about a specific service that is not listed here, please contact our department.
Doctors and
Locations
Doctors
Learn about the skills and specialties of our sleep medicine doctors and the family-centered care they provide.
Locations
Locations
In addition to our primary hospital location at the Academic Health Center in Indianapolis, IN, we have convenient locations to better serve our communities throughout the state.
Sort through 4 facilities offering Sleep Medicine care by entering your city or zip below.
Department Forms & Resources
Department Forms & Resources
Riley Children's Health provides the following forms for parents, healthcare providers and personnel. We have also curated relevant resources from other websites and provided links with brief descriptions of the information that is available.
Forms
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Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire: Younger than age 3 (Riley Children's)
Please complete this questionnaire before your child's first appointment.
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Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire: Ages 3 and older (Riley Children's)
Please complete this questionnaire before your child's first appointment.
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Adolescent Sleep Log (Riley Children's)
This sleep log will help your child's doctor better understand your child's sleep habits and patterns.
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Sleep Diary (Riley Children's)
Your child's doctor may ask you to fill in this sleep diary and fax it the Sleep Medicine Department.
Related Programs
Related Programs
We provide multispecialty care for a number of conditions. Below are links to our related programs.
Health Professionals
For Health Professionals
The sleep medicine specialists at Riley Children's work with you to provide advanced diagnosis and treatment for your patients. Through ongoing research, we develop leading edge therapies that improve patient care.
Refer A Patient
Riley Children's works with referring physicians in Indiana and beyond.
Refer A PatientResearch
We are working on several ongoing research projects. For more information about our research studies, please call 317.944.5000.
Education
As faculty members of the Indiana University School of
Medicine, we help train the next generation of pediatric pulmonologists and
sleep medicine specialists. Our Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship Program provides
post-residency training in an atmosphere of mentorship and collaboration, and
our sleep medicine fellowship is the only program in Indiana accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.