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

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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