INFORMATION FOR PARENTS

• Having Your Child Evaluated for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  This piece is written for children age one or older who have not yet entered puberty and does not encompass infantile apnea or apnea of prematurity. As children begin to enter puberty, their symptoms--and hence the diagnosis and treatment of the disorder--become more like those of adults.
  
  
• OSA in Children (a reprint from Advance magazine)
  
  
• The Young and Unrested: OSA Affects Thousands of Children (an article in WAKE-UP CALL, the ASAA Newsletter)
  
  
• Free Publications on Sleep Apnea (from the ASAA)
  
  
• Join ASAA

For more in depth information, you may want to read the American Academy of Pediatrics' "Clinical Practice Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome" Pediatrics 2002;109:704-712; (http://www.aap.org/policy/re0118.html).

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