[accessibleimage] Fwd: Re: Re: Fwd: Re: Re: link echolocation Ben Underwood


Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:20:15 +0100
To: accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Mel Poluck <mel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [accessibleimage] Re: Fwd: Re: Re: link echolocation Ben  Underwood

perhaps the reporter in the video shouldn't have called it "echolocation" - that was a bit misleading if he's simply using his hearing to sense distance
thanks for that though vince,
mel



At 13:02 11/10/2006, you wrote:
Mel, I don't agree with you 100% - things sound differently out in the open from - say -when you walk down an alley-way in steel-tipped shoes. That's an extreme example really, and I can quite understand that someone could train themselves to get a little more subtle about the effects they create as they move. Personally I wouldn't rely on my hearing enough to skateboard along the road - it makes a good video, but it would be reckless to do this without a great deal of training, at least in my case.
 
I have observed when I had more sight a blind person tapping with his cane and accurately avoiding solid obstacles and people walking past him, and I'm sure some people are well attuned to their sound environment. It's certainly something to try, as far as I am concerned, but within sensible limits.
 
Vince.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Mel Poluck
To: accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:00 AM
Subject: [accessibleimage] Re: Fwd: Re: Re: link echolocation Ben Underwood
right! so how does a human "use" or access echolocation without some kind of man-made device - does anyone on the list know?
i thought it was just bats, dolphins and whales that have this innate ability!
this is still a mystery to me and yes susan, it sounds very dangerous.
thanks,
mel poluck
e-access bulletin, uk

At 20:06 10/10/2006, you wrote:
As I understand Ben's story from another article in the popular press, he does not use any devices at all.  It does seem a bit dangerous when you think about him navigating streets w/o anything.  The pictures which accompanied the other article I read showed him sitting in his mother's lap, which at his age, makes me wonder how independent he really is.  Perhaps that's just my cynical side showing.
 
Susan Mooney
 

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