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spudly

Hey all - I'm a newbie here so i hope this is in the correct area.

I have a 3year old son (nearly 4) who has recently been diagnosed as being on the Autism spectrum.

I was wondering whether this might entitle us to any benefits (DLA, Carers etc..). I've been looking around on the site but i must confess to finding it quite confusing and wondered if there was anyone on here that might be able to help??

Regards,
Stuart

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  • I contacted NAS and they sent me through an additional form to add to our DLA claim that asks specific questions about ASD, its really good, and I made an appointment with their telephone help line to go through the questions to make sure I have worded it well and to go over a few questions I'm unsure of, I've got to admit up until yesterday I was not 100% sure we should be applying, a bit of denial about how bad my Son is I think, but after a horrendous outing yesterday, that was ment to be a fun afternoon out, I couldn't trust my son to go any where busy on his own, i had to stop him twice from walking into he road as he got disorientated, really scary. The NAS have been so helpful, I'd make them your 1st port of call.good luck

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  • I contacted NAS and they sent me through an additional form to add to our DLA claim that asks specific questions about ASD, its really good, and I made an appointment with their telephone help line to go through the questions to make sure I have worded it well and to go over a few questions I'm unsure of, I've got to admit up until yesterday I was not 100% sure we should be applying, a bit of denial about how bad my Son is I think, but after a horrendous outing yesterday, that was ment to be a fun afternoon out, I couldn't trust my son to go any where busy on his own, i had to stop him twice from walking into he road as he got disorientated, really scary. The NAS have been so helpful, I'd make them your 1st port of call.good luck

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