August 9, 2006: Ben Underwood and Dan Kish appear on ABC'S Prime Time Live to demonstrate how FlashSonar is used and taught to an advanced level.

July 26, 2006: Daniel Kish is interviewed with Ben Underwood for a program called Insight, airing on Capital Public Radio.

July 15, 2006: Dan Kish presents a half day FlashSonar seminar to Mobility Specialists during division day at the International AER Conference in Salt Lake, Utah.

July 8-9, 2006: Dan Kish, and Swiss assistants René Jaun  and Marc Fehlmann conduct a 2 day FlashSonar-No Limits workshop for blind participants in Bar, Switzerland. Participants also included one Mobility Specialist from Germany and one mother of a blind infant.

June 23, 2006: Dan Kish and Junior Coach Karl present a half day symposium in Holland  for participants from Holland, Belgium, and Germany. Participants included mobility and other blindness professionals, agency directors, sound technicians and other engineers, blind people, parents, bat specialists, and the press.

June 22, 2006: An article appears about Dan Kish teaching FlashSonar in  the regional Swis newspaper "Neue Zuger Zeitung."

June 20 and 22, 2006: Daniel Kish and Junior Coach Karl conduct full day professional development workshops at the national Sensis organization for blind education and rehabilitation in Holland. These events were covered by several news and scholarly publications and national television.

June 12-13, 2006: Daniel Kish and Junior Coach Karl conduct a two-day professional development workshop at the Zollikofen school for the blind for mobility instructors from Germany and Switzerland.

June 3-5, 2006: Daniel Kish in conjunction with the Alpine Club conducts a group hike with totally blind adults and children in the magnificent Swiss Alps above Grindelwald. Participants received introduction to FlashSonar, and learned how to travel without sighted guides, which was a first for most of the participants. Most participants expressed appreciation for the opportunity to expand their freedom and self-reliance.

World Access for the Blind supports the idea that blindness is not as disabling as is commonly believed. Barriers to functioning associated with blindness arise more from poor interaction between blind people and society than from intrinsic deficiency. We characterize blindness as a condition of life style with specific challenges requiring a strong capacity to adapt. Blindness should not deny access to all the experiences and opportunities of the WORLD. In this spirit we proceed with two convictions:

NO LIMITS: While everyone faces limits, we assert that limits should not be imposed or presumed upon anyone. We all, blind or not, should enjoy the freedom and strength of character to seek and discover our own limits and strengths.

NO DIFFERENCE: Blind people possess the same needs as everyone else - to be free from undue restriction, to be capable and competent, to know a sense of camaraderie and belonging to the world, and to respect themselves and draw the respect of others. They hold the same ambitions and dreams as others, and are nourished by the same hope and assurance that they can achieve these aspirations. Blind people can achieve the same quality of life as sighted people when they gain the same freedom to access the world as sighted people.

We do not settle for the minimum requirements for functioning, but instead reach for the limits beyond our limits. Our goal for our students is that they understand that they have the ability to direct their own lives rich with quality, promise, and as much excitement and intrigue as they could wish for. They need not rely on the good graces of others, but can make it on their own good graces, and share these graces in a worthy manner with others.