Car Parks

[wasuup3000]

6 year old has developed a thing about cars being dangerous and screaming at them to stop or go away or not to run us over. This is obviously not good when we have to use a car park. Anyone else have this, he recently did a right start training course at school which seen=ms to have set this off.

DS is like this but non-verbal when frightened. Really petrified of cars but loves buses however and would run under one given the chance.

I don't suppose you can use the parent and young child spaces? We can just about get away with parking there. We're hoping to get DLA Mobility because he's so phobic that he won't even walk up the garden path to the front door now.

A Blue Badge might help him wasup, some councils do discretionary ones based on needs. We had a twat of a GP who described DS's autism as "a variable condition" so couldn't get one that way but it's worth a try especially with an older child.

My DS has been similar, very anxious but not screaming, about taxis and buses.

Must have been the term for road safety - my DS did a course too - told me you knew you had passed if you were still alive at the end - aargh!

Sounds like your DC has been told something about what could happen if they are not careful and has taken this to mean all cars are very dangerous. Could you do a social story type thing to explain otherwise, or look at some road safety stuff on the internet and see if they say anything to give a clue as to what might have been said so you can reverse it.

Very tricky I know, my DS will only have some misunderstood information 'corrected' by the person who first said it, just will not listen to anyone else.

Thanks to you all I may have to look at the blue badge the way its going .
Found this which he must have taken very literally on what they have been taught recently at school.

www3.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/web/?siteid=3253&pageid=8451

Both of my dd's hate traffic, dd1 used to scream/cry in car parks and dart of behind parked cars if a car drove past, she's now a bit better but will still hold her ears and hide behind me. Dd2 covers her ears and looks at the ground (which means she cant see where she is going), she cries and covers her face when we see a bus/coach/tractor. I find it so hard when i have both of them, dd1 walks so slow (low muscle tone), both of them cover their ears so i cant hold their hands without prizing them away from their ears. Dd2 will also run towards parked cars as she loves number plates and logo's.

How do i get a blue badge? do you need to claim mobility?

Blue badge eligibility can vary from LA to LA.

Ours makes it extremely clear that it is for 'permanent, physical conditions only'.

So, for conditions such as ASD you will have to make it clear that the ASD is a permanent organic change in brain functioning that leads to the behavioural issues that cause the difficulties with safe walking.

DD1 has a BB which she got when she was 3. She was refused initially on the grounds that behavioural issues and learning difficulties weren't phyiscal. Then, I appealed on the grounds that her brain malformation was both permanent and physical, and that her behaviour and walking difficulties were as a result of that, so therefore her difficulties result from a permanent and physical condition, which meets the criteria in their documentation. Our appeal was granted then.

Here. it's anyone who's on high rate mobility DLA (which J is now so, thank goodness, renewal won't be a faff) or any child who has 'severe behavioural problems'. That's how we got it the first time, as J wasn't on HRM then, but it was a pain cos GP didn't know us and so couldn't fill in the form but the BB dept wouldn't accept a letter from CAMHS psych so turned us down. One complaint later, they agreed to take the psych letter and we got BB but was a long process. Couldn't manage without it now - worth asking for.