Seeing with Sound: A Short Film Follows the Man Teaching Echolocation to Blind People
Daniel Kish has taught thousands of students worldwide an essential skill: to see with sound. A lifelong advocate for the blind, Kish is a pioneer in echolocation, the ability to perceive one’s surroundings by making clicking noises or tapping a cane. As sound waves bump onto nearby walls and objects, the noises they reflect create a sort of audible map. “If I click at a surface,” he says in a new short documentary, “it answers back.”
The New Yorker, “Echo” follows Kish and a few students who have benefited from his teachings. More
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