I'm in need of some advice. My 14 year old son has had traits of ASD as ADHA from about the age of 3 years old, we have never had any help with him being assessed because he is ok at school, well so they say he is, but he does get detentions all the time for not doing homework or forgetting to hand it in. He also gets in trouble for disrupting the class in history the one subject he is not interested in. At school isn't the problem, it's as soon as he walks through the door after school and every day he isn't at school.
Anyway... I applied for DLA 6 months ago to be able to help him get off his electrics and get him out doing stuff he likes to do, just everything he is interested in is very expensive, and I thought because of all the extra help and supervising I have to give him at home and while out and about that I would give DLA a go, well it got refused and I asked for it to be looked at again and the same, refused. I did ask why and they told me that because I couldn't prove the extra help and supervising I do for him they can't grant the claim, My son didn't have have a diagnosis but was waiting to be seen by a clinic that study's the brain, but this isn't an assessment it is just for research, (the senco at school sent him,) we didn't have a referral for him to be assessed either.
Well now the doctors have referred my son to Neurodevelopmental service and they have accepted his referral and we are on a waiting list to be seen. (18 weeks or more waiting time) He has also had his appointment at the calm clinic to study his brain, we waiting for the senco at his school to get the report on that, could be 4 - 5 weeks then once she has it I will get the same report.
What I'm asking is if I make a claim again will I have a better chance of getting DLA with the referral ? And is there anything I can do to prove I help him with the things I help him with?
He would really benefit from the extra cash for him to have one to one time with me or my husband doing something he like and depend on his electronic as much.