Can any Spanish speakers help me with this, please?

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My DS is 4 and he is going on a playdate at another boy's house. He is fine doing this sort of thing, done it before and I generally do leave him for an hour or 2. The boy's family are Spanish and parents are learning English at the moment. The little boy has great english, but I doubt at 4yo he can translate for them what I want to say...

I want to say/write, just so that they know in case DS gets funny whilst he is there...

"DS has mild autism" or Aspergers syndrome

I could write it on a note and hand it to them?

I do speak (some) spanish, but that is beyond me I'm afraid, you could try posting in the bilingual/overseas parents section on here, or otherwise use this: babelfish I'm told that the translation is rather old fashioned (ie if we wrote with thee and thus) but otherwise perfectly understandable, and it would allow you to write pages if you wanted to

I got this from babelfish, I think it would be OK?

Mi hijo tiene autismo

I would say:
Iwould say:

Mi hijo padece de autismo
my son has autism

Mi hijo padece el sindrome de Asperger
my son has Aspergers syndrome

Hope that helps!

Or, if they speak some English, it might be easier for you to write a short note in English so you are using your own words but put the Spanish in brackets, eg

'Just to let you know, John has autism/aspergers syndrome (autismo/sindrome de Asperger), so if he starts doing X/Y/Z then don't be alarmed/call me/whatever you want to say...'

Thanks, that's great.

Just "mi hijo tiene autismo" might be a bit of a bombshell. I live in Spain and people aren't nearly as up on Aspergers here as at home, for example.

If there's anything more you'd like to include on your note, let me know..

HTH

mi hijo tiene autismo leve

is how to stress it's a mild case, but I agree with mamsnet that you may want to provide more detail