IQ testing

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Hi does anyone know where i can get my 4 year olds IQ tested please, part of reason dla mob not awarded they have put his iq needs to be 50 or below, but they have not had it tesed, we are going to tribunal and i would like to have this done. thanks

Chartered Educational Psychologists do it.

That's not right! Mine get mobility and have never needed their iq tested. It goes on their needs, not their IQ.

What is his disability? find a support group, they will have people with experience of this.

R(DLA)/100

"1. a claimant must show severe impairment both of intelligence and of social functioning to bring himself within the definition in regulation 12(5);

2. in deciding that the claimant must demonstrate that he had an IQ of 55 or less in order to meet the first of these conditions (?severe impairment of intelligence?), the Commissioner had taken too narrow a view because intelligence includes not merely the functions of understanding and intellect but also the qualities of insight and sagacity and IQ tests are therefore not a true indication of useful intelligence;

3. whilst in every case the claimant?s IQ as conventionally tested is likely to be the essential starting point for considering the impairment of intelligence and whilst it is reasonable to take an IQ of 55 or less as the prima facie touchstone of severe impairment, that test and that score will not invariably prove decisive and other evidence must be admitted and considered."

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