April 27-29, 2009: Daniel Kish delivers 3 days of workshops and student trainings at Linden Lodge School, England, which specializes in blind children with multiple involvements.

April 24; May 1, 2009: Daniel Kish delivers one day hands-on perceptual development workshops to mobility officer trainees at Birmingham University, England, with aim toward helping integrate perception based approaches into the training curriculum for future instructors.

April 19, 2009:  Daniel Kish has an article, “Echo Vision: The Man Who Sees With Sound,” in the April 11, 2009 issue of New Scientist magazine.  The article is available online here.

March 14-15, 2009: Daniel Kish is keynote presentor on human sonar, including auditory scene analysis and training, at a symposium on bio-acoustics and animal sonar, organized by the University of Southern Denmark in Kerteminde. This symposium included some of the top world experts and scientists on bio-acoustics in animals.

March 13, 2009: Daniel Kish delivers a 3–hour perceptual development and self directed discovery seminar at a national conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, sponsored by Instituttet for Blinde og Svagsynede. Over 60 mobility instructors from all over Denmark attended.

February 21, 2009: Daniel Kish delivers a presentation and demonstration on nonvisual perception and development to the R2K conference, sponsored by the Pediatric Therapy network. This conference was attended by Occupational, Physical, and Speech Therapists, as well as other health care professionals, from all over the world.

TEAM BAT members are mountain biking!!

Each participant is encouraged and trained to ride solo within the group, while maintaining optimum control of the bicycle.

TEAM BAT is a project, concept, think tank, springboard, and fraternity/sorority for individuals with visual impairments looking to break through the traditional limits and barriers of the blind. Approximately 90% of blind children won't find long term, gainful employment when they grow up. The problem arises not from the reduced vision, but from the reduced standards of performance and expectation of achievement for the blind.

Echolocation is a natural sonar system that animals such as bats, dolphins and whales use to perceive their environment. Bats emit ultrasonic chirps and listen for "echoes" to navigate and negotiate obstacles. In 1938, Donald Griffin an American scientist discovered that bats used these high frequency sounds and termed it echolocation. A broad definition may be the ability to hear echoes, but it's literally "seeing" with sound. The sounds travel through air or water in waves. When the sound wave encounters an object, it bounces off the surface and comes back as an echo.

The bat mascot was chosen out of respect for one of nature's most remarkable creatures. Bats have poor vision and many species have no sight at all, yet they perform all necessary functions such as flying, hunting, and raising their young. They "see" by sending pulses of emitted sound from their nose or mouth. The sound waves spread out and are reflected off objects and bounce back as an echo. In other words, they "see" using their ears. This perception was termed echolocation by Donald Griffin in 1938. Many TEAM BAT members use echolocation to successfully navigate and "see" objects.