DLA question

[Katymac]

Is DD relearning to do everything she did sighted, unsighted fit in:

Has the child' development of physical and sensory skilss been delayed

or

Has the child's development of learning skills been delayed?

or neither

Because she used to learn very effectively but now she has had to relearn how to learn as well

Yes to all of them?

Her development will be delayed because it is taking her longer to re-learn every skill she had sighted and will take her longer to learn a new skill than if she was still sighted and she also has to find different ways of learning skills which would have come naturally had she been sighted?

Or is that total nonsense and I'll shut up?

you have my sympathy. I hate DLA forms. Do you have chocolate on standby?

Katymac, write in both. Even if it is a copy and paste of each other, if it is too hard to separate out the two.

She is experiencing a delay, because normally she would be experiencing the world as a typical 12 year old, and is now unexpectedly blind. She is like a blind newborn, rather than a blind 12 year old with 12 years' experience of living without sight.

Chocolate !!!????

I thinking of giving up being teetotal

Where is that alcohol

Is this enough?

Has the child?s development of physical and sensory development been delayed?

Although DD?s development has been that of a normal 12 year old she now has to relearn all the tasks and skills she has previously learnt as a sighted person, so that she can do them unsighted.
This includes getting dressed, cooking, eating, ordering food, buying products, choosing clothes; in fact everything you do on a day to day basis.

Has the child?s development of learning skills been delayed?

DD had good learning skills previously, however she has now started to learn in different ways. She was primarily a visual/spatial learner and she is now having to develop her auditory skills.

Everything takes so much bloody longer

KatyMac, you are used to working within the EYFS, and writing everything positively. You have to learn to write negatively.

"Although DD?s development has been that of a normal 12 year old she now has to relearn all the tasks and skills she has previously learnt as a sighted person, so that she can do them unsighted."

Read that again, like this:

"Until 18 weeks ago, DD was a typical 12 year old. At that point she lost very much of her functional sight. This means that previously learned skills have been lost. She can no longer dress, cook, eat.....in the same way as other 12 year olds. She is having to relearn these skills without sight, so she is functioning as a much younger child."

Just tweaking it and adding words like 'lost', 'no longer', etc, makes them much more able to see the 'disability' that has resulted. If you phrase it positively, it can sound like it is no big deal, and that within a few days she will overcome it.

Remember that it isn't the sight loss that they will judge, it is the effect of the sight loss on her functioning.

It's very hard

A you say I am naturally positive for children (which is bad now)