If your ASD child started nursery at 2..

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..How did they get on and what (if any) problems did you have?

DS is closer to 3 actually but starting in September and I'm just trying to anticipate any issues that may crop up.

Main worries:
He might hurt someone
He might hurt himself
He will get overwhelmed and be unable to communicate that

He attended as a baby but was so unhappy, regressed a lot, and I pulled him out until now. He's getting bored at home and definitely needs to learn how to be around other children, so I'm sending him back to the same place (they were really good with his increasingly obvious additional needs)

We went to look around last week (they have moved to a better building) and he was really confident and engaged with the environment, I was surprised.

I suppose I'm hoping for some positive stories but also things I might not have thought of that could go wrong.

He is non verbal, developmentally delayed, issues around food/drink etc, can be aggressive if frustrated, bites and head bangs. Nursery are aware and happy to support him.

*it's 3 afternoons a week

If you have a good nursery, you’ll be fine. DD started at 1 and is now just about to turn 4 so she’s been there three years where her needs have been changing etc. they should put an individual educational plan in place and look at doing an EHCP.
we have quarterly meetings with our nursery senco to talk through issues and goals. There was a time where she started hitting children but they understood it was communication, worked out what was triggering her to do it (noise) so they knew how to avoid her getting to that point.

my biggest advice is making sure that if his key worker is on holiday, that whoever covers for them has a full handlover and knows DS needs. The only issues wever ever had have been like that so now there’s a book they fill in daily so I can physically see certain things have been done.

Thank you @Zinzinner you've reassured me.

I've given them lots of info to work with and I'll be making up a 'guide' for his complex eating.

They've worked well with us before so I'm really hoping it goes ok. I feel like it's a lot to ask them to deal with but they seem to not mind.