There are four factors to be taken into account in 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:

they can make progress on foot without severe discomfort, that they are virtually unable to walk.
DLA Regs, reg 12(1)(a)(ii)

The test of being ‘virtually unable to walk’ looks only at physical factors that limit your child’s walking and only at factors that restrict their walking outdoors on a flat surface and level ground, rather than, for example, where or when they walk outdoors.

If your child has a severe learning disability but does not meet the test described in 12 below , they may still qualify for the higher rate as virtually unable to walk if the interruptions to their walking ability can be shown to be physical in origin (see Box B.2 ). If yo