DLA for developmental trauma

[ihatejezza]

Disability Living Allowance

My son is 5 years old and he has developmental trauma from severe medical trauma as an infant. He has so many triggers but basically lots of dysregulation and aggression every day for the last 18 months from many attachment and sensory triggers. He needs constant supervision and can be very destructive and frequently aggressive and dangerous. At school he has a 1:1 and has still been suspended twice in his first half term.
On the mobility side he is highly impulsive and when dysregulated is very dangerous around roads. But he also has sensorimotor integration issues which make movement very tiring and frustrating for him. So for example on a walk of maybe 10 minutes, he will walk fast for five minutes, start to tire and eventually need carrying. And the journey back he will be leaning against you and stopping every ten feet all the way home. Also an issue in PE and other classes. This is obviously highly restrictive. Can anyone shed any light over what sort of band these are likely to get if at all?

DLA is based on needs.

For the care component: low rate care is help for some of the day, mid rate care is for frequent help or continual supervision during the day, supervision at night or someone to help while they’re on dialysis, and high rate care is for help or supervision throughout both day and night or claims under the special rules.

For low rate mobility is for those who can walk but need help and or supervision when outdoors. There are various ways of being eligible for HRM - unable or virtually unable to walk caused by a physical condition, severely visually impaired, deaf and blind, under the severe mental impairment rules, amputation of both legs through or above the ankles, are for any reasons without both legs to the same extent as if they had been amputated through or above the ankles.

From your post, DS would be entitled to at least MRC/LRM. There isn’t enough information to say beyond that.