Instructional Materials
When Darkness Lights the Way: How the Blind May Function as Specialists in Movement and Navigation
by Daniel Kish - 2003
Daniel Kish is a totally blind Orientation and Mobility Specialist who has written this monograph to illustrate how blind people may function as specialists in movement and navigation. It serves as a very detailed exposé on his experiences both in training, and in the profession. He covers an exhaustive array of issues in depth. Careful attention is given to the maintenance of the highest professional and ethical standards.
Daniel Kish is a totally blind Orientation and Mobility Specialist who has written this monograph to illustrate how blind people may function as specialists in movement and navigation. It serves as a very detailed exposé on his experiences both in training, and in the profession. He covers an exhaustive array of issues in depth. Careful attention is given to the maintenance of the highest professional and ethical standards.
Moving On: A Hard Road, and Blind Beginnings
CBC TV - February, 2007
Blind Beginnings President, Shawn Marsolaiss, learns FlashSonar from Daniel Kish, with an aim to learn to ride her bike to work. A lot of the instructional process is followed closely. This is her thought provoking journey.
Blind Beginnings President, Shawn Marsolaiss, learns FlashSonar from Daniel Kish, with an aim to learn to ride her bike to work. A lot of the instructional process is followed closely. This is her thought provoking journey.
Embracing Our World
Daniel Kish - 2003
This document is a compilation of dozens of presentations delivered to consumers and professionals from all areas of the blindness field covering child-rearing, movement and navigation, psychological and social adjustment, daily living and life skills, multiple disabilities, resources, and general freedom and quality of life.
This document is a compilation of dozens of presentations delivered to consumers and professionals from all areas of the blindness field covering child-rearing, movement and navigation, psychological and social adjustment, daily living and life skills, multiple disabilities, resources, and general freedom and quality of life.
Facilitating Movement and Navigation in Blind Pre-Schoolers: A Positive, Practical Approach
Daniel Kish, Hannah Bleier, Sandra Moser - 2003
This report, written with many thousands of collective hours of experience with blind preschoolers discusses the psychology of learning in the preschooler and presents many practical methods of facilitating movement competence.
This report, written with many thousands of collective hours of experience with blind preschoolers discusses the psychology of learning in the preschooler and presents many practical methods of facilitating movement competence.
FLASH SONAR PROGRAM: Helping Blind People Learn to See
Daniel Kish - 2013
The conventional term echolocation has unfortunately come to represent and describe the more conventional use of echolocation, which is typically rudimentary and far from its actual capacity and scope. In this paper, President Daniel Kish describes our Flash Sonar training program, designed to introduce the more advanced degree, scope, and complexity that echolocation can provide.
The conventional term echolocation has unfortunately come to represent and describe the more conventional use of echolocation, which is typically rudimentary and far from its actual capacity and scope. In this paper, President Daniel Kish describes our Flash Sonar training program, designed to introduce the more advanced degree, scope, and complexity that echolocation can provide.
Teaching FlashSonar
Insight Magazine, United Kingdom - March, 2008
Daniel Kish provides an overview of the FlashSonar process, and how it's taught.
Daniel Kish provides an overview of the FlashSonar process, and how it's taught.
A Perception Basis for Cane Length Considerations
AER Report - Spring, 2009
Reports a new way, based in perceptual theory and long practice, to determine cane length that is found to be especially helpful for children.
Reports a new way, based in perceptual theory and long practice, to determine cane length that is found to be especially helpful for children.
FlashSonar: the next step in Echolocation instruction
AER Report - summer, 2009
Provides a perceptual overview and practical tips on bringing echolocation instruction to the level of advanced active sonar.
Provides a perceptual overview and practical tips on bringing echolocation instruction to the level of advanced active sonar.
Flash Forward
Insight Magazine, United Kingdom - March, 2010
by Daniel Kish
One of our most inspirational stories about our work helping a Scottish boy named Danyl learn to walk again after a serious accident. "The last thing I said was: “I’m dying dad, I’m dying dad.” after that I can’t remember anything. ... For the first few weeks, I .. didn’t believe that I was actually blind. ... I was just glad that I was still alive. ... When you first came out to work with us .. I honestly thought you were joking, I didn’t think that it would work. ... When I first came round in hospital and I really wanted to walk and see again, I didn’t think that all of this would be done for me. I didn’t think that there would be help coming from all of Scotland, never mind from America to help me. Now I definitely think I will be able to walk again ... so I am really, really happy with all the help that I’ve received." - Danyl,
by Daniel Kish
One of our most inspirational stories about our work helping a Scottish boy named Danyl learn to walk again after a serious accident. "The last thing I said was: “I’m dying dad, I’m dying dad.” after that I can’t remember anything. ... For the first few weeks, I .. didn’t believe that I was actually blind. ... I was just glad that I was still alive. ... When you first came out to work with us .. I honestly thought you were joking, I didn’t think that it would work. ... When I first came round in hospital and I really wanted to walk and see again, I didn’t think that all of this would be done for me. I didn’t think that there would be help coming from all of Scotland, never mind from America to help me. Now I definitely think I will be able to walk again ... so I am really, really happy with all the help that I’ve received." - Danyl,
Canes Mean Freedom
Insight Magazine, United Kingdom - July & September, 2010
Parts I and II of this article discuss the critical importance of early cane training for blind infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The theoretical framework is discussed, and some principals of implementation are outlined.
Parts I and II of this article discuss the critical importance of early cane training for blind infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The theoretical framework is discussed, and some principals of implementation are outlined.
FlashSonar: Understanding and Applying Sonar Imaging to Mobility
Future Reflections, National Federation of the Blind - March, 2011
An invited article by Daniel Kish about how we teach FlashSonar to bring mobility to new levels.
An invited article by Daniel Kish about how we teach FlashSonar to bring mobility to new levels.
Bat School for the Blind
BBC Switched - November, 2010
This informative documentary showcases Brian Bushway, one of our Perceptual Mobility Coaches, teaching a course of FlashSonar to a teenaged boy from Wales, England, with verification of his progress by a scientist from U.C. Davis. This video is narrated by the boy himself.
This informative documentary showcases Brian Bushway, one of our Perceptual Mobility Coaches, teaching a course of FlashSonar to a teenaged boy from Wales, England, with verification of his progress by a scientist from U.C. Davis. This video is narrated by the boy himself.
