Sleep Disorders in Children
The Sleep Center at Children's Mercy Kansas City specializes in coordination of respiratory support equipment and other services that are vital to the care of children who have a wide variety of non-respiratory sleep-related issues. Learn more about our team and services provided in our Sleep Clinic brochure.
Preparing Children for a Sleep Lab Study
We have created a kid-friendly sleep lab prep book to help put children at ease before taking part in a sleep study.
Download the prep book (pdf)
Sleep Diary
You will need to bring a completed, two-week sleep diary to your child's sleep study.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sleep Questionnaires
CPAP Instructions for Kids
Meet our CPAP Coordinator
CPAP Coordinator
Services Offered
- Outpatient clinic services
- Overnight polysomnography (sleep study)
- Daytime multiple sleep latency test (MSLT ) for excessive daytime sleepiness and narcolepsy
- Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT)
- Nocturnal respiratory evaluation of children for home use of oxygen, CPAP, BiPAP and ventilation
- Insomnia evaluation and treatment
- Actigraphy
- Part of interdisciplinary team services for evaluation and treatment of children who have sleep and/or breathing difficulties that are associated with complex medical and surgical problems
Commonly Treated Conditions
- Primary sleep apnea of the newborn and infancy
- Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
- Central sleep apnea
- Congenital central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome
- Behavioral insomnias
- Parasomnias: night or sleep terrors, sleep walking
- Sleep-related movement disorders: head banging, rocking
- Sleep-related seizure disorders
- Circadian-rhythm disorders: sleep phase delay in adolescents
- Restless leg syndrome-periodic limb movement disorder
- Narcolepsy
