Students with symptoms of sleep disorders are more likely to
receive bad grades in classes such as math, reading and writing
than peers without symptoms of sleep disorders, according to a
research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007,
the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep
Societies (APSS). The study, authored by Alyssa Bachmann, of
Chappaqua Public Schools in New York, was focused on the parents
of 218 second and third graders, who completed Sleep Disorders
Inventory for Students – Child Form, a brief screening tool
validated for use in the schools. According to the results,
students with reported symptoms of sleep disorders received
significantly worse grades than students without symptoms of
sleep disorders. Specifically, there were differences in math,
reading and writing grades. "This study, which identified the
relationship between the prevalence of symptoms of sleep
disorders and academic performance in second and third graders,
found that screening students at sch