Schedule Domain A — Behaviour 1 - Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) Determination 2010 - Domain A — Behaviour 1

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For each question, the claimant must tick only the response code that best describes how well the child in care usually manages.

Question 1:

The child’s ability to do everyday things (e.g. eating, bathing, talking, walking and mixing with other people etc) is:
Improving over time (i.e. the child is likely to require less help in the future)	
Becoming worse over time (i.e. the child is likely to require more help in the future)	
Relatively stable (i.e. the child is likely to require the same level of help in the future)	
Fluctuating or episodic (i.e. the child’s condition and ability to do everyday things goes up and down from day to day or week to week)	
Unsure	

Question 2:

Settling down to sleep at night

(e.g. repeated efforts needed to get the child to go to sleep at night)

The child never has difficulty settling down to sleep at night	
The child sometimes has difficulty settling down to sleep at night (e.g. one or two nights a week)	
The child often has difficulty settling down to sleep at night (e.g. more than two nights a week)	
The child always has difficulty settling down to sleep at night (e.g. every night)	

Question 3:

Disrupted sleep at night

(e.g. waking up many times during the night, awake for long periods during the night, or having nightmares)

The child never has disrupted sleep at night	
The child sometimes has disrupted sleep at night (e.g. one or two nights a week)	
The child often has disrupted sleep at night (e.g. more than two nights a week)	
The child always has disrupted sleep at night (e.g. every night)

The child never has irritable behaviour	
The child sometimes has irritable behaviour (e.g. one or two days a week)	
The child often has irritable behaviour (e.g. more than two days a week)	
The child always has irritable behaviour (e.g. every day)	

The child’s speech and communication is appropriate for their age (e.g. the child can speak and communicate their everyday needs in the same way as other children of the same age. For young babies this may include crying when hungry, smiling or babbling.)	
The child has difficulty speaking or communicating their needs in other ways (e.g. speech is unclear and can only be understood by people who know the child very well or the child is aged over 4 years and can only say or sign a few words)	
The child uses other ways to communicate (e.g. sign language, picture board, electronic communicator, gestures, pointing)	
The child cannot talk or communicate their needs effectively in any way	

The child is able to understand everything that I would expect for a child of this age	
The child sometimes needs me to speak more simply, repeat things or give reminders (e.g. once or twice a day)	
The child often needs me to speak more simply, repeat things or give reminders (e.g. the child has a lot of difficulty understanding what I say several times a day)	
The child cannot understand most things I say (e.g. the child does not appear to understand simple instructions or questions such as ‘do you want a drink?’)	

The child plays and mixes with other children as expected for a child of his/her age	
The child sometimes needs help to play and mix appropriately with other children (e.g. once or twice a week)	
The child often needs help to play and mix appropriately with other children (e.g. several times a week)	
The child cannot play or mix with other children at all (e.g. the child has extreme behaviour problems or the child cannot play with other children because of a severe disability or medical condition)	