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Children With ASD
Medi
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Hi guys hope you are all well,I just wanted to ask if children with ASD are eligible for higher rate mobility.Thanks.
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The higher rate mobility component can be paid to a child from the age of three years. It is for children who are unable, or virtually unable to walk, or where the exertion required to walk would constitute a danger to their life or would be likely to lead to a serious deterioration in their health. Children can also qualify if they have a severe visual impairment, are both deaf and blind, or are severely mentally impaired.
Four factors are taken into account when deciding whether your child is virtually unable to walk. The test is whether their:
‘ability to walk out of doors is so limited, as regards to:
(they) can make progress on foot without severe discomfort, that (they are) virtually unable to walk.’
To qualify for the higher rate mobility component because of severe mental impairment, the child has to meet all the following criteria:
- be entitled to the higher rate care component of DLA
- suffer from a state of arrested development or incomplete physical development of the brain which results in severe mental impairment of intelligence or social functioning
- exhibit ‘disruptive behaviour’ which ‘is extreme’ and ‘regularly requires another person to intervene and physically restrain them to prevent them from causing injury to themselves or another, or damage to property’
- be so unpredictable that they require another person to watch over them whenever they are awake
Source: https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/financial-support/help-with-benefits/disability-living-allowance?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI48_Rr7DB3QIVBIvICh0ZHQrDEAAYAiAAEgJkpPD_BwEAs an individual I stood alone.
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