Treatment with melatonin may help children with autism sleep better.
Children with brain problems are more likely to have sleeping problems. This placebo-controlled study looked to see whether controlled-released melatonin was able to help children with autism sleep better. The children had either delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) or impaired sleep maintenance (ISM). The authors based the dosage of melatonin partly on whether or not the child had DSPS or ISM. They found that 47 of the 50 children in the study (not all autistic) were helped by melatonin therapy.
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