[senco-forum] Disability Living Allowance

I have been following some of this erratically but feel that I may have

One important point when filling out DLA (Disability Living Allowance)
forms for yourself, your child or for clients: Do keep a photocopy of
what you submitted and all related correspondence (it's easiest to
file this in date order) as this will be invaluable as an aid to
filling in the same forms all over again when this comes up for
renewal a year later ..and the year after that ...and, etc., etc.

David Bowles

> I have been following some of this erratically but feel that I may have
> something to contribute, as a parent and as an SEN support service  teacher.
> I applied for DLA for my son before he was two and got it before anyone
> would admit to me that he had problems. He also got his Statement as soon after
> two as it could have been and received educational support. I have been filling
>  in forms now with monotonous regularity, as he is now 20. I have just filled
> the  40 page booklet again mainly with answers like 'no change' as the same
> forms are  used for people who have acquired their difficulties later in life
> and there  seems to be no way of anyone accepting that a life long condition is
> just  that...