Richard Ferber is a physician and the director of The Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders, at
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston Children's Hospital formerly known as Children's Hospital Boston until 2012 is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care children's hospital located in Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical Sch ...
. He has been researching sleep and sleep disorders in children for over 30 years. He is best known for his methods—popularly called
Ferberization
The Ferber method, or Ferberization, is a technique invented by Richard Ferber to solve infant sleep problems. It involves "sleep-training" children to self-soothe by allowing the child to cry for a predetermined amount of time at intervals before ...
—that purports to teach infants to learn how to fall asleep on their own, which are described in his book ''Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems'' (first edition 1985).
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