VICTA Parent Workshop – Understanding Your Child’s World: ADHD and Vision Impairment Made Practical

• Date: Tuesday 21 April 2026

• Time: 7.30pm to 9.00pm

• Location: Zoom

• Cost: £5

VICTA is pleased to be partnering with an experienced ADHD coach to deliver an informative and supportive online session for parents and carers of vision impaired children who have been:

• Diagnosed with ADHD
• On the diagnostic pathway
• May be showing related traits

We will also be joined by a vision impaired young person from the VICTA Changemakers initiative, who has lived with ADHD all her life. She will share her lived experience and personal insights into how having both a vision impairment and ADHD has impacted her day-to-day life, education, and wellbeing.

Understanding ADHD

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) affects attention, behaviour, and self-regulation, and can present differently in every child.

Some common signs may include:

• Difficulty with routines and everyday tasks
• Short attention span and distractibility
• Impulsive behaviour, such as interrupting or acting without thinking
• Restlessness or difficulty staying focused in school
• Social challenges, including friendships and reading social cues

Children may be supported through medication prescribed by a healthcare professional, often via the NHS, as well as therapeutic and behavioural approaches such as ADHD coaching.

This session isn’t designed to provide advice on getting an ADHD diagnosis, it’s to help parents build understanding, empathy, and confidence by introducing practical strategies to support your child at home and beyond.

About the ADHD Coach: Jasmine Kennedy

Jasmine spent almost four decades undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, and at times incorrectly medicated, before finally receiving an accurate diagnosis of ADHD combined type in her 50s. While her diagnosis helped explain a lifetime of challenges, it did not remove the reality of living with an ADHD brain in a predominantly neurotypical world.

Motivated to better understand herself and support others, Jasmine trained in advanced ADHD coaching.

In this workshop, Jasmine will share:

• How neurodivergent brains differ
• How ADHD can affect everyday life
• Practical strategies to help manage symptoms
• Ways parents and families can better support their child

ADHD coaching has been shown to be highly beneficial not only for individuals with ADHD, but also for their families. Increasing awareness and understanding is key to helping children feel supported, empowered, and able to thrive.

Join us to gain knowledge, practical tools, and valuable lived-experience insights to help you support your child with confidence.

Please apply here!

Parent/Guardian 1

First name *

Last name *

Email *

friends do 2

Address line 1 *

Address line 2

City *

Post code *

Contact phone number *

Is the applicant *

• Blind
• Partially Sighted
• Not vision impaired

Parent/Guardian 2

If a second parent/guardian will be joining, please include their details below

First name

Last name

Is the applicant *

• Blind
• Partially Sighted
• Not vision impaired

Are you currently a member of the VICTA Parent Network Facebook group? *

• Yes
• No

Details of your VI child

Please fill out the details for your child who has a visual impairment, although children are not attending this is required for our information and planning.

Child's first name *

Child's last name *

Child's date of birth *

Is your child *

• Blind
• Partially Sighted

Photographs and filming

Photographs and video footage may be taken during our online activities. These will be used to create photo albums both on our website and on VICTA's social media after the activity to share with family and friends and to promote the activity. VICTA may also use any photographs or video material taken during an event for the future marketing, publicity and fundraising of activities. Do we have your permission to do so? *

• Yes
• No

Declaration, privacy and consent

To be signed by the applicant. This form has been completed accurately and I undertake to update VICTA should any of the information in this form change. a. I agree to to take part in VICTA's activity and have read all the information sent to me. b. I acknowledge the need to behave responsibly at all times during the activity. c. I confirm that this form has been completed accurately and I undertake to update VICTA's organisers should any information contained on the form or personal circumstances change. By signing this form you consent to VICTA using the information supplied for the purpose of administering the named event. All the information will be treated in the strictest of confidence and made available only to those staff working with the participant. We may need to share your details with third party suppliers in relation to this activity. Contact information will be retained and used for marketing of other relevant services. I give consent for VICTA to carry out the following in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998) and to store my personal information on VICTA's database and/or any other suitable system.

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Date *

My relationship to the applicant (if applicable)

• Parent
• Legal guardian
• Other

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How did you hear about this activity? *

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