ADHD DLA Claim

sunnyone

skipsmum wrote: »

You cannot claim on the one hand that a person is so impulsive that they need a carer to maintain their personal safety (and other peoples) when they are outside (which you are effectively saying when you apply for mobility component or HRC, and then say that that person is safe to drive a vehicle unsupervised. You have to declare ADHD on application for a driving license and the DVLA will ask for a doctors report.

The doctor will either state that the person is ok to drive (in which case they are not able to claim DLA on the grounds of unsafe behaviour) or that their impulsivity could be of risk to the public.

Speaking only about ADHD (not any other disability) and definitely not rubbish, and I speak from experience.

Im also talking from experiance and your talking rubbbish in this and the last post, you dont have to declare any disbility to apply for a driving licence.

When a youth gets old enough to drive they can be assessed as to wether or not they will be safe to drive and the initial assessment can be done at any age post 16, the assessor will decide the way forward from their and there are many paths forward depending on the youth, the reports from their assessor, the team involved in their care, the drug regime they are on and numerous other markers before its decided if they can drive or not.

People who recived DLA for ADHD as a child can and do improve enough to drive, just because you get HRC/LRM as a child dosnt mean that you will always be so ill but if its HRM its a diffrent story or you should never have got HRM in the first place :eek:

skipsmum

.......Whatever!

You have to declare ADHD on application for a driving license and the DVLA will ask for a doctors report.

sunnyone

skipsmum wrote: »

.......Whatever!

You have to declare ADHD on application for a driving license and the DVLA will ask for a doctors report.

where on the form does it ask if you have ADHD as a child and if you got HRC?

Never on the forms I have done.

skipsmum

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/MedicalRulesForDrivers/MedicalA-Z/DG_185372


Motoring



Attention deficit disorder and driving

Attention deficit disorder is a condition that you need to tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) about.

Car or motorcycle driving licence holders


To tell DVLA please download the medical questionnaire 'M1' and send it to DVLA.


taken from DVLA website.


OP, I'm very sorry about any bickering.

sunnyone

skipsmum wrote: »

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/MedicalRulesForDrivers/MedicalA-Z/DG_185372


Motoring



Attention deficit disorder and driving

Attention deficit disorder is a condition that you need to tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) about.

Car or motorcycle driving licence holders


To tell DVLA please download the medical questionnaire 'M1' and send it to DVLA.


taken from DVLA website.


OP, I'm very sorry about any bickering.

We are talking of a child with ADHD (and you also mentioned HRC) and not an adult that had ADHD as a child, I had ashma as a child but Im not ashmatic now so it dosnt need declaring to anyone, we all change as we get older and it is possible to grow out of ADHD like many conditions.

sock-knitter

i know a lot of families with adhd, and i know a lot who havent grown out of it once they've reached adulthood, some cope better with it than others

chrisa027

My son is 11 and two years ago we applied for DLA and got turned down even in the appeal. In Oct last year we started the process again and this time when we got the initial reply back turning us down again, we went to Welfare Rights who looked at everything and told us that he is a definate case for DLA, but a paragraph that the school wrote would have been the problem.

I am part of a local ADHD group and problems with DLA regularly get mentioned. There are several projects that I am getting involved in where the aim is to get the wider public more in touch with what ADHD is and how it affects people especially children. It is going to be a long struggle and until then anyone trying to get DLA or anything else for their children especially from some schools are going to have to keep asking and pushing for help. Anyone turned down for DLA should go to their local Welfare rights department who will help them progress any claims.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

chrisa027 wrote: »

we went to Welfare Rights who looked at everything and told us that he is a definate case for DLA

Welfare Rights say that to everyone

chrisa027 wrote: »

Anyone turned down for DLA should go to their local Welfare rights department who will help them progress any claims.

I think everyone who is turned down does. That's what the DLA bill is so massive these days. ADHD DLA claims are springing up like mushrooms these days.

I bet the Decision Makers go "ohh joyyy - another ADHD claim, I havn't seen one of those for a whole 20 miniutes".

I am wondering if they are kept as a Friday job. Just get the ADHD claims and stamp "not entitled" and then go home for the weekend.

sunnyone

sock-knitter wrote: »

i know a lot of families with adhd, and i know a lot who havent grown out of it once they've reached adulthood, some cope better with it than others

I didnt know that families got ADHD, you learn something new every day!

Plenty of people diagnosed with ADHD as children improve and become as normal as the rest of society , especially the one's that get the right help to learn coping stratergies.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

sunnyone wrote: »

I didnt know that families got ADHD, you learn something new every day!

Plenty of people diagnosed with ADHD as children improve and become as normal as the rest of society , especially the one's that get the right help to learn coping stratergies.

The other thing I find strange about all these DLA claims is the same old chestnut is trundled out about crossing the road.

Many young children have poor road sense not just those with ADHD. If DLA was paid because children and adults with or without ADHD might get run over then we would have a National Bill on our hands of Trillions.