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Here are some suggested organisations that offer expert advice on special needs.

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The blame game continues.

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bullet234 · 06/02/2011 11:16

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12359070. I really don't know what to say about such a vitriolic, misrepresentation of the diagnostic process.

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coppertop · 06/02/2011 11:25

It always amazes me that this country spends years and thousands of pounds on training people to become doctors and consultants, when really all they need to do is borrow a teacher or Head. After all, the school staff obviously have just as much medical expertise and can make a diagnosis just as easily, can't they?

Wow. I think I've just saved the NHS a few million quid.

bigcar · 06/02/2011 11:37

so a teacher has come across 1 case of someone lying, therefore everyone else must be too, ffs. And it's so easy to get extra benefits Totally ignorant. The govt will be really happy, yet again it's the dla scroungers are at it again

coppertop, good plan you have there, just this morning I was reading on another forum that a teacher had told a parent that an (incurable) disability was now no longer an issue. I have the greatest respect for some teachers, a few go so far out of their way to accomodate childrens needs and then idiots like this open their mouths.

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bullet234 · 06/02/2011 11:42

Reading her example though, I did wonder when stated that the parent must be lying as her son hadn't been in school for twelve weeks. Right, and perhaps there was a good reason why her son had not attended school for that length of time, which was that he could not cope with it?

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Thecarrotcake · 06/02/2011 11:48

Okay.... Hmmmmm... Well....

If I had known dx's was that easy to get id have gone the to paed that these educationalists have come across!
( we are currently now looking at ADHD / ADD .. On top of everything else!)...

Do I want drugs for benefits... Nope ... Do I want school to impliment support and strategies that work at home.. And have been supported by CAMHS... yes I do! Can they be bothered to do this? No !

I have never been offered a parenting course ( hollow sarcastic preen)... Because when people have asked what we have tried, what we impliment at home, what has worked or not worked... They are supplied with my 'novel' and diary!.. I'm not perfect but we try really hard.

But this article makes us look like spongers because we recieve DLA .. ( actually only based on ASD ).

( oh and the dla we recieve is totally spent on and only part pays for therapies for ds... Because school do not do meet his needs!)

I'll stop ranting

Ineedalife · 06/02/2011 11:51

Fgs, they make it sound so easy, I am not sure many fraudulent parents would jump through as many hoops as most of us have!!!

bigcar · 06/02/2011 11:54

ah bullet, may be I read it wrong then, I thought she meant the child had not been in school for 12 weeks (!whatever the reason!) but the parents were claiming that the child had been in school and really 'badly behaved'. Cause of course she was really worried that the child wasn't in

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Spinkle · 06/02/2011 12:33

Hmmm.

Am a teacher. My son is ASD and his teacher thought he was ADHD. She filled in the Conners thingy. She said she 'ramped' it up as much as possible. He didn't get through that screening. She tried to second guess it, I'll wager. And that didn't work. His activity levels and concentration levels are in line with his ASD apparently.

So I'm wondering how these parents slip through the net?

Also: I HAVE seen some parents try this tack to get DLA. I have currently a set of parents who are have got a dx of HFA for their daughter (she is 8). They claim DLA for her and are currently having an extension built for her and her 'needs' (housing grant). Her needs, as far as I know, from what I have seen teaching her and seeing her out of school, are pretty slight. I say that as an ASD parent.

Same family has a 6 yr old boy (they do in fact have 7 children in total - not that that has anything to do with it - the other 5 have been permanently excluded from school for violence) This child has such disordered speech and language that the lady from the speech unit who came to assess him said that he was the worse speaker she had ever encountered. How has he managed to get to 6 with no intervention ?(school now has put this in place for him) and we constantly have to chase the parents for meetings regarding him. But there's no DLA in it for them....

Funny that.

mariamagdalena · 06/02/2011 13:18

Spinkle, I've seen families like this too. Whatever the cause, I think the chances of these seven dc being able to function independently on reaching adulthood are fairly close to nil . So even if the hfa is spurious they probably are all suffering from some other sort of emotional /psychiatric diagnosis by now sufficient to get lower rate DLA (on the grounds of needing a lot more input than an average child).

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