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HINo one has replied to you so though I am not visually impaired perhaps I could offer some advice anyway. Why don't you take the process into your own hands and go through the children who wait magazine and apply to an out of area LA. They are not allowed to discriminate against you so go for it.all the best

We have adopted twice ( 2 sets of siblings ) I have MS and walk with a stick sometimes. WE found that we needed to be pro -active in searching for children and tel the Social workers of children in be my parent, saying why we were interested in those children, explaining my experience of working with children, saying from the start that I had a long term health difficulty that caused me to limp sometimes. Social workers would ask for more details but because we were approved realised that the agebcies that had approved us had already decided that I had the ability to look after children .If you are looking for a V I child -there is a visually impaired child in Januarys Be My Parent magazine

HI thanks for your message. We have tried being pro-active as well, but with no luck yet. We only seem to get the "Children who wait" magazine, how can I subscribe to be "Be my parent"?

you can subscribe to Be My Parent through BAAF -the British Asscociation for adoption and fostering-hope you can find a match soon

Hi ya I 2 am visually impaired & it has taken us 2years thus far our SW has bn amazing & we have bn finally matched with little one & we go 2 matching panel in few weeks we have had to jump through many many hurdles & has bn very tough I have a real good net work of support which has helped us loads.

Did you know that you & I are very select few as there are only 5 of us in the whole country that have got this far.

HiI'm not visually impaired and neither is DH but it took us almost 18 months to get a match, it seemed like forever though whilst we were waiting.Hope you hear something soonl