Self-advocacy
Use your voice to communicate your skills, negotiate your needs and define your goals.
Self-advocacy
Use your voice to communicate your skills, negotiate your needs and define your goals.
Self-advocacy
Use your voice to communicate your skills, negotiate your needs and define your goals.
Grow with VICTA
My experiences with VICTA …
Find out from ‘Emmy’s VIP Life’ how her positive experiences attending VICTA activities helped her build her confidence, a big step to becoming your own self-advocate.
Grow with VICTA
My experiences with VICTA …
Find out from ‘Emmy’s VIP Life’ how her positive experiences attending VICTA activities helped her build her confidence, a big step to becoming your own self-advocate.
Take your own steps to self-advocacy
Take your own steps to self-advocacy
A guide on how to self-advocate (speak up or yourself)
Guide Dogs has some great advice to help you self-advocate in an effective manor. Get to grips with their ‘high five’…
- Who?
- When?
- Where?
- What?
- How?
You can use these steps with the information in their article to create positive outcomes to issues you may face along the way.
We chat to Oxford University Medical Student Tiri Hughes
Tiri chatted to the VICTA Science Fair about how important it is, as a student with a vision impairment, to be your own self-advocate. She talks about her own educational path into medicine and how accessible she is finding her university studies.
latest stories
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Volunteering at Junior Parkrun – By Scarlett
For my Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, I volunteered at my local Junior Parkrun. The volunteering system was very structured, with a rotation system so people are allocated different roles each week, but also, [...]
Superhero triathlon fundraiser – Q & A with Ryley
In 2018 Ryley, age 13, decided to set himself a huge sporting goal and enter the Superhero Tri, the UK’s one and only disability sports series for the Everyday Superhero! Ryley was born with [...]
How health and fitness helped me manage my mental health when I became blind
By Ibraheem Iqbal Hi everyone, my name is Ibraheem, but you can call me Ibz. I am proud to be one of VICTA’s Young Ambassadors. I have been given the opportunity to write an [...]
