Echolocation Poised to Change Blind Mobility
FREEPORT, ME, USA -- The phenomenon of human echolocation, which
enhances perceptual mobility within the blind community, has recently had many
breakthroughs in the scientific community. Author Tim Johnson explores this
skill in his book The Beginner’s Guide to Echolocation for the Blind and
Visually Impaired, a simplistic guide to demonstrating echolocating through a
scientific journey of actionable lessons that refine a person’s natural
capability of the skill.
Echolocation is a fundamentally simple skill that many blind
people use daily to navigate and understand their environment. This skill is
sometimes misunderstood, but Johnson demystifies echolocation in a way that
anyone can understand with simple exercises, examples and lessons to begin a
successful practice of active echolocation.
The ability to echolocate is something that we all possess, even
the sighted. By identifying the shape of objects through sound, the blind
community has been able to take on tasks such as riding bikes and other sports,
encouraging more independence overall.
“The exercises and lessons provided in this book serve as a
foundation for learning echolocation,” author, Tim Johnson, said. “However, The
Beginner’s Guide to Echolocating also provides resources to continue you
echolocation education for a lifetime. The research on the topic is long
overdue, but I am excited to see where it can go now that the scientific
community has taken interest.”
This book outlines
echolocation in six segments that help clarify what it means to echolocate,
realize the benefits of using echolocation and how easy it is to learn, as well
as put echolocation into practice with easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons. For
more information, visit:
www.HumanEcholocation.com.
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