claiming dla for deaf child

knack

Hi
Wonder if anyone can help. In June my child was diagnosed with high & low level pitch deafness. Iwas advised that after 3months I would be able to claim dla for her. Is this correct. Any advise would be great.
Many thanks

MrsManda

Presuming your child has extra care and/or mobility needs above that of a child without any medical conditions she will be entitled to DLA.

The basic qualifying conditions for DLA is that the care/mobility needs have to have lasted 3 months and are expected to last at least a further six months.

For information on eligibility and how to apply you can go to direct.gov.uk: Disability Living Allowance

For further info:

Under the eligibility section of the link above it says:

If you are claiming for a disabled child

Your child must need a lot more help or supervision than other children of the same age.
You can claim for care needs before a child is aged three months, but benefit will not be paid before the child reaches the age of three months unless they are paid under 'special rules' (see below).
You can claim for mobility needs from:

• age three, if your child is unable, or virtually unable, to walk or would be at risk if they tried to walk
• age three, if your child is both 100 per cent disabled because of loss of eyesight and not less than 80 per cent disabled because of deafness
• age three, if your child is severely mentally impaired with severe behavioural problems and qualifies for the highest rate of care component
• age five, if your child needs guidance or supervision when walking out of doors

(you are not claiming under 'special rules' as this for people with terminal illness)

RazWaz

I was born deaf myself and my parents claimed DLA for me, I needed extra help learning to talk and communicate with people along with other things - people had to watch me when playing outside because of traffic.

If this is the case for your daughter then you will be able to claim for her. Make sure you get some help filling in the claim form from someone who has done it before, maybe ask the cab as they are quite hard to do as you have to fill in a lot of information, and most of it is things you wouldn't bother writing as it just looks like common sense, but it it's not on the form you won't get it.

knack

Thank you both very much. Been back to gp again today. She keeps getting ear infections and the scaring is getting worse in the right ear. GP says its very abnormal & that the ear drum in the left ear is perforated. GP says hospital may only monitor her with the possibility of her having grommets fitted. So far she has kept up in school, she tells them to be quite if it gets too loud. Her speech is also fine.

nannytone_2

from what you say, it doesnt appear that she has needs that are much different from kids her age.

maybe stress communication issues. how is she hearing cars when outdoors?
how old is she?

sunnyone

knack wrote: »

Hi
Wonder if anyone can help. In June my child was diagnosed with high & low level pitch deafness. Iwas advised that after 3months I would be able to claim dla for her. Is this correct. Any advise would be great.
Many thanks

In about the same timeframe my nephew was dignosed as totally deaf in one ear and limited hearing in the other ear which had a badly perforated drum, we were told he could have a gromet for the hearing ear and a specialist nurse would visit his school to make sure he was sitting where was best to allow him to hear as much as possible, its now four months later and he went to see his ENT last week and his perforated drum is whole and he dosnt need the gromet, he stll hasnt got full hearing in that ear and hes still totally deaf in the other, your daughter could have the same results at her next ENT meeting, she could improve like my nephew has.

Has she had someone to her school to make sure shes sitting in the right place acostically (sp)?

An aids no good to my nephew in his totally deaf ear and his ENT wants to give his hearing time to settle before taking a desicion about an aid to his other ear has your daughter be assessed for aids?

Deafness runs in our family but we were still surprised at his test results, I bet you were at your daughters and I hope things look better for you both soon.

knack wrote: »

Thank you both very much. Been back to gp again today. She keeps getting ear infections and the scaring is getting worse in the right ear. GP says its very abnormal & that the ear drum in the left ear is perforated. GP says hospital may only monitor her with the possibility of her having grommets fitted. So far she has kept up in school, she tells them to be quite if it gets too loud. Her speech is also fine.

Hear-Hear

Hmmmm. DLA for d/Deaf raises its head again. It's a hard one, as it depends on whether the individual (or in this case, the parent) considers the condition a disability or not. Some do, some don't.

The litmus test then has to be - what difference would a DLA payment make to the individual ? or, to put it another way, what would the individual not be able to do without the DLA payment, that he/she could and would do if the DLA payment was made ?

Indie_Kid

Hear-Hear wrote: »

The litmus test then has to be - what difference would a DLA payment make to the individual ? or, to put it another way, what would the individual not be able to do without the DLA payment, that he/she could and would do if the DLA payment was made ?

This doesn't matter. You just need to prove that your deaf child has more care and /or mobility needs than a non-deaf child of the same age.

knack

from what you say, it doesnt appear that she has needs that are much different from kids her age.

Until she get hits by a car, or when her class mates are way ahead of her - it took me ages to catch up (my deafness was less severe - but still not 100%).

sunnyone

knack wrote: »

from what you say, it doesnt appear that she has needs that are much different from kids her age.

Until she get hits by a car, or when her class mates are way ahead of her - it took me ages to catch up (my deafness was less severe - but still not 100%).

Has she had an assessment at school to make sure shes sitting in the right place acostically (sp)?

You dont get run over because your deaf, you get run over because you havnt learnt to take more care of cars because your deaf, Im severe/profoundly deaf and Im severly mobility impaired but Ive never been run over, your daughter needs to learn how to be safe round roads but so does every other child under 12 (thats the age the the goverment say that kids can judge the speed and distance of oncoming vehicles)

nannytone_2

knack.........you were very selective about which part of my post to quote.

this is the rest of it.


'maybe stress communication issues. how is she hearing cars when outdoors?
how old is she? '


looks like i covered what youre saying already!