Dr. Richard Ferber is the director of The Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders, at Children's Hospital Boston

Children's Hospital Boston

Children's Hospital Boston is a 396-licensed bed children's hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts.At 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...

. He has been researching sleep and sleep disorders in children for over 20 years. He is best known for his methods - popularly called Ferberization - that purports to teach young infants to learn how to fall asleep on their own, which are described in his book Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems.