Dolphin boy! Meet the incredible 4-year-old who has learnt to navigate using 'sonar' clicks

Dolphin boy! Meet the incredible 4-year-old who has learnt to navigate using 'sonar' clicks


A blind boy has learnt how 'to see' again - after being taught a language used by DOLPHINS.

Young Jamie Aspland utters tiny high-pitch clicks to rebound the sound off surfaces - and guide him round obstacles.

The four-year-old - who was born without his sight - was taught the 'echo location' technique as part of an exciting technique pioneered in the U.S to help the blind.

His mother Deborah hailed the treatment after her son was able to walk unaided to the park for the first time and even steered himself around a fence.

She said: 'It's changed our lives. The therapy has been a revelation.

'Since learning the skill we can walk to the park and Jamie no longer has to hold my hand.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1269717/Dolphin-boy-Meet-incredible-4-year-old-learnt-navigate-using-sonar-clicks.html#ixzz0mVKdiYTs

What an excellent idea!

thanks for sharing....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_(Marvel_Comics)

He was on Oprah a few years ago.

This boy had taught himself to navigate using echo location.

but I don't recall if it was on Oprah or another show.... but it was a slim African American teen, and his demonstration was pretty amazing!

edited to add: Oh, so sad.... here is the boy I was thinking of, and he has passed at such a young age...
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/health/stories/2009/01/22/echolocation_blind_teen.html

So sorry to hear he died! :(

since birth who walks home nearly every day from the bus stop w/out using a guide stick or any help. Not sure how he does it but he manages quite well fooling the new people around here, LOL.