Sleep Scotland
8 Hope Park Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9NW
Tel (Helpline): 0131 651 1392
Web: www.sleepscotland.org
Sleep Scotland is a charity which supports the parents and carers of children and young people with additional support needs and sleep problems.
It aims:
- To help children and young people with additional support needs to sleep better and consequently to improve their daytime performance.
- To help parents and carers by giving them specific tried and tested behavioural and cognitive techniques to adapt their child's night-time behaviour.
- To provide training for professionals from health, social work, education and the voluntary sector.
- To establish sleep clinics to provide families with support and counselling.
- To run a telephone support line
- To raise awareness of the problems caused by sleep difficulties in children and young people with additional support needs.
- To promote the availability of a sleep counselling service as part of the role of the statutory sector.