What is "sleep training"?

What is "sleep training"?

Gary Feldman (Medical Director, Stramski Disorders Center, Miller Children's Hospital ) gives expert video advice on: What is "sleep training"?; How long will it take to train my child to sleep through the night? and more...

Sleep training is behavioural modification to change the pattern or the habits that your child has already gotten into. It uses simple behavioural techniques of what we call "extinction," where you are replacing one set of behaviours for another. You basically either reward a behaviour that you like or you extinguish a behaviour that you don't want by ignoring it. That's essentially the nuts and bolts of what sleep training is all about.