Just a very quick question re: tick boxes at front of DLA form

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Please excuse me for being a bit dim, but the front of the DLA form, there are tick boxes about the child's disabilities

With ds being Asperger's and ADHD which would you think fits him best:

1. has a learning disability

1. has both a severe learning disability and severe behavioural problems

1. has a long term illness

1. has a mental health problem.

These are the only possibles, but none seem to fit with him being very high functioning.

Any ideas please?

Hi, not sure about your son, but just looked at what I did on this for my ASD DS2.

I ticked the learning disability (because it affects how he learns/interacts/behaves) and we also ticked the severe learning and behaviour one, but I suppose that one depends on your DS - and his behaviour!

I did tick the long term illness, but crossed out the word "illness" and wrote "condition" down instead. (suppose I could have substituted "lifetime" for long term, too, looking at it now...).
I didn't tick mental health problem BUT further on in the form there's a section on child's mental health. and I put that my DS does show many of the above behaviours (this was on page 19 of our form) but that these result from his condition, ASD, which is regarded as developmental, not mental health problem. I just wanted to get it in somewhere that he does have the problems even if the causes could be argued over! I guess this depends on whether your DS has the type of problems listed on that page?

Hope this is of some help

Thanks Socci and Tobysmumkent - yes, there are more options but these are the ones which fit with AS and ADHD.

More recently, ds's behaviour has been attrocious as his ADHD medication was being changed over 6 weeks. Last weekend was the grand finale to a crap week - and I got bitten so hard on the inner thigh that I cried. However this behaviour was medication-induced i'm sure. I have included it on the form as this is what his behaviour is like when I don't medicate him.

I like that you changed the word illness to condition Tobysmumkent - I think I may do this also. Thank you.

Hi, I ticked the boxes that applied to ds and what you feel describe your ds best. larsxx