Sleep and cognitive Functioning in Children With Disabilities (2013)

Joseph A. Buckhalt

This article covers the topics of sleep disorders and how they relate to
disabilities. One excerpt reads Among children with disabilities, those with
intellectual disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism
spectrum disorder have been found to have atypical patterns of sleep and
high prevalence of sleep disorders. This study begs the question, which
came first? Do disabilities cause sleep disorders? Do sleep disorders make a
person more prone to developing disabilities? Are they even related in any
way? Or is the correlation between something even more insignificant? It
makes you wonder whether the presence of one can contribute to the
development of another, or if knowledge of this can create a placebo effect,
making some think they have ADHD because they have insomnia.