Liamsmummy

Hi my name is Laura and i have a 10 year old son Liam. Liam was diagnosed in 2004 with aspergers, 2006 with asperger, and ADHD and more recently with PDA as well as. I have recently renewed his DLA and want to appeal against the decision at the moment he gets high rate care low rate mobility and its the mobility i'm appealing against. I know that almost every asd child get the entitlement i currently recieve but just wondered if there is anyone who gets high mobility and if they could help me achieve this for my son. My son now goes to an autistic lead school and has done for just over a year now before this he only ever attended a school for a hour a day 4 days a week. he is extremely aggrssive and other than going to school he doesn't leave the house can anyone help please Laura

HI my son attended a INC which was attached to a main stream school and sturggled, as much as the staff tried it just didn't work out. Go with what you feel and don't let the LA 'bully' you. My son was dianogised in 2004 whlie at nursey he stayed in that main stream school until he was 6 slowly he went from full time to 1 hour a day 4 days a week we then moved him to another school (the one with the INC) and managed to attend 3 hours a day 5 days a week but we didn't see much change. the LA attended a multi agency meeting with us and said that as he would soon be getting to the age for secondry school we needed a plan because he obviously couldn't stay at a primary school, he wouldn't be able to cope with a secondry school and the special needs school were over subscribed which as you can imadgine dosen;t leave us with anymore options. I took it upon myself and googled 'autistic schools in nottinghamshire' which found an independent school i approached the LA who implied that i would have to pay the fees to send my son there. To cut a long story short a few weeks later afters meetings upon meetings the LA arranged another meeting and suggested sending my son to this school for an assessment and secured him a place and agreed that the LA should fund it as they couldn't find suitable school for my son. within weeks my son started there full time and has been there ever since he will be 11 in march