The video course preparatory to the Perceptual Development workshop can be found here.
Documents
NO SIGHT, NO LIMITS: The Achievement Process
This document is intended to supplement the hands-on workshop format (described here) that covers perceptual development and self-directed achievement.
Embracing Our World
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.
Acoustic Navigation in Premature, Blind Children
Steve Charles, MD
Charles Retina Institute
Dr. Charles, world renowned vitreoretinal surgeon and engineer, documents his observations of young infants spontaneously producing oral signals for the apparent purpose of gaining navigational information.
"Acoustic Navigation in Premature, Blind Children" - MS Word Version
Facilitating Movement and Navigation in Blind Pre-Schoolers: A Positive, Practical Approach
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
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.
Sonic Echolocation: A Modern Review and Synthesis of the Literature
This scholarly monograph presents an exhaustive review of the literature on human echolocation. These findings are discussed with relevance to the design of a systematic echolocation training program. The positive impact of echolocation on blind travel is thoroughly documented.
"SONIC ECHOLOCATION: A Modern Review and Synthesis of the Literature" - HTML Version
When Darkness Lights the Way: How the Blind May Function as Specialists in Movement and Navigation
Written by Daniel Kish, a totally blind Orientation and Mobility Specialist, this monograph is a description of how the blind may function as specialists in movement and navigation. It serves as a very detailed expose on his experiences both in training, and in the profession. An exhaustive array of issues are covered in depth. Careful attention is given to the maintenance of the highest professional and ethical standards.
"When Darkness Lights the Way" - HTML Version
"When Darkness Lights the Way" - PDF Version
