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2007

November 25 - December 8, 2007: Daniel Kish travels to Australia to deliver follow-up professional development and student training throughout New South Wales, sponsored by Guide Dogs New South Wales-ACT.

November, 2007: Daniel Kish returns to the UK at the invitation of Visibility and families to provide follow up training and presentations for fund development to expand the training of Perceptual Mobility Coaches.

September 5, 2007: Daniel Kish and Brian Bushway deliver an evening presentation in Poole, England to local families and professionals on fostering self directed achievement in blind children, sponsored by Common Sense.

September 1, 2007: Dan Kish and Brian Bushway featured presenters at a day long national conference for families throughout Scotland, sponsored by Visibility and the Scottish Sensory Center.

August 24 - 31, 2007: Daniel Kish and Brian Bushway train blind professionals to become Perceptual Mobility coaches for families throughout western Scotland, sponsored by Visibility.

August 14 - 19, 2007: Daniel Kish conducts FlashSonar workshops at the Braille Beats camp in Michigan.

June 24 - 29, 2007: Dan Kish and Brian Bushway travel to Armenia to present at the international Armenian Eye Care Project (AECP) Ophthalmology Conference in Yerevan, and to lay the ground work for development of the first Orientation and Mobility training program for the blind in Armenia.

May 21 - 24, 2007: Dan Kish delivers a perceptual development seminar to students and staff, and conducts a FlashSonar professional training workshop to mobility instructors at the California Orientation Center for the Blind.

Other Past Events

December 13 - 15, 2006: Dan Kish delivers a perceptual development seminar and conducts a FlashSonar professional training workshop for all mobility and Guide Dog Instructors at Guide Dogs Victoria, Australia, with a mini presentation provided to instructors and families in the local community.

December 8, 2006: Dan Kish delivers a presentation on embracing the world as a blind person to families throughout New South Wales. Engaged participants included parents and caregivers of all ages, and children as young as 5. This workshop was arranged and sponsored by Guide Dogs of New South Wales, Australia.

November 27 - December 1, 2006: Dan Kish delivers perceptual development seminar and conducts FlashSonar professional training workshops to all mobility and Guide Dog Instructors at Guide Dogs of New South Wales, Australia.

November 27, 2006: Dan Kish delivers Keynote presentation to entire staff and Board of Directors of Guide Dogs of New South Wales, Australia.

November 12 and 13, 2006: Dan Kish conducts a hands on workshop to the Pennsylvania College of Optometry faculty about training blind Orientation and Mobility Instructor trainees.

November 11, 2006: Dan Kish conducts a FlashSonar training workshop for faculty and students at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.

November 10, 2006: Dan Kish delivers a Perceptual Development seminar to faculty and students at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO).

October 18-19, 2006: Dan Kish, and Coaches Brian Bushway and Juan Ruiz will conduct a two-day professional development workshop and keynote speech at the Outlook Okanagan 2006 conference in Kelowna, British Columbia.

October 12-17, 2006: Dan Kish, Coaches Brian Bushway and Juan Ruiz, and Junior Coach Clement will conduct a series of individual and group training for blind children and adults, and their families in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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 20 and 22, 2006: Dan 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: Dan Kish and Junior Coach Karl conduct a 2 day professional development workshop at the Zollikofen school for the blind for mobility instructors from Germany and Switzerland.

June 3-5, 2006: Dan 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 there freedom and self-reliance.

Feb. 16, 2006: Dan Kish delivers a presentation on flash sonar and the human perceptual process at the Northeastern AER Chapter meeting conference.

Feb. 13-15, 2006: Dan Kish delivers a 3-day flash sonar workshop to 20 O&M specialists in Baltimore, Maryland, training two blind students.

2005

November 18-19, 2005: Dan Kish presents a two-day flash sonar workshop at the Southwestern Orientation and Mobility conference.

October 19, 2005: Dan Kish presents a full day workshop on Flash Sonar at the Northern Rockies AER conference.

October 6-8, 2005: Dan Kish to presents on the need for human perception factors in the development and implementation of WayFinding technologies and strategies at the first World Congress on Blind WayFinding, organized with the help of World Access for the Blind.

August 29-31, 2005: Dan Kish conducts a 3 day workshop with Matthew and Clement (blind student assistants) on Flash Sonar to mobility specialists in Kelowna, Canada

August 20-21, 2005: Dan Kish and Karl Adam (junior coach) conduct a 2 day workshop with Nichol and Florian (blind student assistants) on Flash Sonar for 27 Orientation and Mobility specialists in Chemnitz, Germany

August 16-18, 2005: Dan Kish delivers 4 presentations on improving quality of life through alternative perception at the ICEVI European congress on Blindness in Chemnitz, Germany

August 9-14, 2005: Dan Kish and Karl Adam (Junior Coach) conduct three, 2-day workshops in Switzerland to train a total of 255 blind students in Flash Sonar, and expose 10 Orientation and Mobility instructors to this process

July 26, 2005: Brian Bushway presents about SoundFlash developments to Alcon Labs all employee gathering

Dune 23, 2005: Dan Kish presents on Seeing Without Sight and Blindness strategies for competitive recreation at the Orientation and Mobility Conference in Pennsylvania

June 10, 2005: Dan Kish presents on Living with No Limits, and Moving with Grace at the Texas Focus conference

April 8, 2005: Dan Kish presents a half day echolocation training seminar with Jim (blind student assistant) for Texas Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired

2004

Sept. 17-18, 2004: North Edmonton Schools, Alberta, Canada, Dan Kish
presented 2-day professional development workshop and family workshop
on echolocation instruction with Ricky and Brandon (blind student assistants).

July 22, 2004: Education Services, El Paso, TX, Dan Kish presented to
parents and blindness professionals about educational enrichment and mobility.

April 20-21, 2004: Envision Rehab. Center, Kansas State Schools, Dan Kish
presented 2-day workshop on special strategies for optimizing education
and mobility for blind children.

2003

December 15, 2003: Dan Kish presents about blind Orientation and Mobility Specialists to the general session at the International Conference of the Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Nov. 7, 2003: World Access for the Blind's vision replacement approach is featured on "More Than Human," aired on the Discovery Channel.

Nov. 7, 2003: Daniel Kish and Juan Ruiz (Instructional Coach) present on a panel of experienced blind travelers, deliver a seminar on vision substitution, and conduct an echolocation training workshop at the Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation way finding conference in conjunction with the Northern California Association of Orientation and Mobility Specialists.

Nov. 29, 2003: Daniel Kish will be interviewed about the abilities of blind people for a Washington radio program called Vital Signs, airing on 101.1 FM.

Nov. 20, 2003: Daniel Kish presents on including blind children in the regular classroom at Chapman University, California.

Nov. 2, 2003: World Access for the Blind's vision replacement approach and No Limits philosophy are featured in the Washington World newspaper.

Oct. 23, 2003: Daniel Kish participates in a national agenda meeting in Wisconsin to lay the ground work for a new university training program in Orientation and Mobility, and presents on the subject of blind O&M Specialists in conjunction AER mid-western regional conference.

Oct. 10, 2003: Daniel Kish and Hector Elias (Instructional Coach) conduct a 2 day training camp for echolocation and self reliance sponsored by Michigan School for the blind and Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation.

Sept. 3, 2003: Daniel Kish conducts a 2-and-a-half day training workshop for O&M Specialists and rehab teachers at Idaho Commission for the Blind.

Sept. 22, 2003: Daniel Kish presents to senior management and facility employees of Alcon Labs Corporation in Irvine California about echolocation technology and the Seeing without Sight concept.

July 13-20, 2003: Daniel Kish and Juan Ruiz (Instructional Coach) conduct a week long echolocation training course for blindness professionals, and blind adults and children for El Centro de Estudios para Invidentes A.C. (CEIAC) in Chihuahua, Mexico.

June 28, 2003: Daniel Kish and Hector Elias (Instructional Coach) deliver a seminar on visual prostheses, and the functional implications and remediation of eye diseases at the University of California, Irvine Medical Learning Center.

April 7, 2003: Daniel Kish presents with Jay Squires (Former Junior Coach) on including blind children in the regular classroom at Chapman University, California.

April 25, 2003: Daniel Kish presents on the nature of blindness to a 5th grade class at Fremont Elementary School in conjunction with the Blind Children's Learning Center.

March 14, 2003: Daniel Kish presents two echolocation training workshops to blindness professionals, parents, and blind students, sponsored by the Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

March 12-13, 2003: Daniel Kish presents two echolocation training workshops to blindness professionals at the northwestern AER regional conference in Vancouver, Washington, sponsored by AER Washington chapter.

2002

Nov. 6, 2002: Daniel Kish and Juan Ruiz (Instructional Coach) deliver a motivational speech to United Way donors in Irvine California, sponsored by the United Way.

Nov. 2, 2002: Daniel Kish delivers a seminar and workshop on using and teaching echolocation to the Southern California Assoc. of O&M Specialists.

Nov. 14, 2002: Daniel Kish delivers a seminar on vision substitution and conducts an echolocation training workshop at the Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation way finding conference in conjunction with the AER Southern Regional Conference in Orlando Florida.

Oct. 9, 2002: Daniel Kish presents a half day workshop to the Idaho Commission for the Blind on Echolocation: Use and Training.

Oct. 18, 2002: Daniel Kish delivers a seminar via video teleconference to blindness professionals throughout British Columbia, Canada, on fostering self-reliance in blind students through Echolocation, hosted by the Sunny Hill Health Center for Children.

Sept. 17, 2002: Daniel Kish presents about physical development and activity in the blind to California State University, Fullerton.

July 28, 2002: Daniel Kish gives a motivational talk to parents for disabled children at Camp TLC in Oak Glen, California

April 13, 2002: Daniel Kish presents on Vision Replacement and Enhancement at the Institute of Innovative Blind Navigation way finding conference hosted by Western Michigan University. March 5, 2002: Daniel Kish presents a seminar on vision replacement and enhancement, and an impromptu workshop on echolocation training at the Institute of Innovative Blind Navigation way finding conference in conjunction with the northwestern AER Regional Conference in Portland, Oregon.

2001

Oct. 29, 2001: Daniel Kish appears with Jay Squires (former Junior Coach) in the Washington World Newspaper riding a mountain bike, and discussing echolocation and KASPA (invented by Dr. Leslie Kay).

Oct. 19, 2001: Daniel Kish and Jay Squires (former Junior Coach) present on how to help blind students meet the world head on to parents of blind children at the Washington Services for the Blind, Child Family conference.

July, 2001: An article on TEAM BAT is published in the Ripley's "Believe It or Not" book.

June, 2001: Daniel Kish discusses KASPA (invented by Dr. Leslie Kay, Director of SonicVision) in "Popular Science."

June 18-19, 2001: Daniel Kish delivers 2-day workshop to rehabilitation faculty at Western Michigan University on the training of blind Orientation and Mobility Specialist trainees.

May, 2001: Daniel Kish and Andrew Griffin of the Blind Children's Learning Center appear with students in "Mountain Bike Action Magazine" to demonstrate the TEAM BAT project.

April 24, 2001: Daniel Kish appears with students while mountain biking on NBC news to demonstrate KASPA, and SonicVision product invented by Dr. Leslie Kay.

March 7, 2001: Daniel Kish and Hannah Bleier of Blind Children's Center present on the use of sonic echolocation by blind adults at Guide Dogs of San Rafael.

Feb. 23, 2001: Daniel Kish appears on the Sallie Jessie Raphael show, featured with students on Ripley's "Believe It or Not" This national appearance demarks the official opening of this web site. World Access for the Blind is officially open for business.

Jan. 10, 2001: One of technological devices that World Access for the Blind was featured in an article on PBS. KASPA, an ultrasonic sonar device created by Dr. Leslie Kay, was part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) radio series. You can hear the entire article (90 seconds).

2000

In the May 2001 issue of "Mountain Bike Action Magazine", an excellent article about Team Bat was published called "Blind Faith". The author, John Ker spent a day riding with the group, and wrote a heartfelt account of his experience.