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DLA copout - what do you reckon?

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r3dh3d · 08/09/2010 16:47

Am filling out the form in a bit of an arse-backwards way, but one of the early questions is whether you want a doctor's assessment. Instead of filling in the whole care and mobility thing, you can ask for a doctor to come out and assess them instead.

Now. DD1 is 6. She has a developmental age of about 8 months. She is hemiplegic & has severe epilepsy. She is so unsafe to be left unattended at any point that social services have provided a colditz-style high-sided bed at absurd expense. Can't speak for now, but at the time of ordering she was the only person they had done this for in the whole of West Surrey.

So. I am wondering if there is any way on god's green that a doctor would assess her as less than high care and full mobility. In which case, doesn't it make sense for me to give up on the whole sodding awful form and ask them to send a doctor in?

Anyone ever done this? Did it work?

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daisy5678 · 08/09/2010 17:21

I would! I think it's people like me with kids with the less visible disabilities that need the paperwork, sadly. But I would feel the same as you do in your position!

ProzacTheGiggleFairy · 08/09/2010 21:05

I ticked the box for them to send out a Dr to assess DS1 (11 with quad cp) as I could not cope with filling in the forms again.

They didn't bother sending anyone out, but just relied on the report that they got from his school.

He was awarded higher rate care & mobility as usual.

I made a point of writing on the forms that parents like ourselves find the forms very difficult to fill in due to the length of the forms & all the repetitive questions.

mariagoretti · 08/09/2010 22:08

I would get the dr. In the unlikely event that they write she has good self care & mobility you can always ask for a reassessment.

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