How to Echolocate: For the Blind, VI and Sighted

In an effort to make the echolocation beginner's guidebook more accessible to everyone, I have recently made the book available on Audiobooks.com .  The audio version of this book is read by a...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2014/08/beginners-guide-to-echolocation-on-audiobooks.html

Get started with echolocation the easy way.  This is a quick and simple audio course I cooked up recently to help you get your feet wet with active echolocation. You can listen to it on the we...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2014/03/free-7-day-echolocation-audio-course.html

Like I said before, I'm so happy to finally be able to announce the release of the first ever book teaching the basics and mechanics of echolocation!! I have had a lot of requests for this edit...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2014/02/braille-edition-of-beginners-guide-to_24.html

By popular demand, I'm happy to announce that I will soon be publishing the Beginner's Guide to Echolocation in Braille!  There are thousands of people around the world who have expressed intere...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2014/02/braille-edition-of-beginners-guide-to.html

Many people who are blind or visually impaired use echolocation without even knowing it. You may be better at if than you think, especially if your have been without vision for many years. O...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/09/are-you-using-echolocation-without.html

This is a brief article, and more importantly a video documenting some of Dr. Daniel Rowan's research in the field of echolocation.  Rowan is a lecturer in the audiology department at the Univ...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/09/research-helps-understand-ability-to.html

I have long stressed the importance of learning awareness techniques at a young age , and anyone else teaching echolocation as blind mobility will tell you that it is the best time to learn.  ...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/07/echolocation-exercises-for-children.html

If you are comfortable discerning a relatively large object in front of you, such as a car, you should attempt circumnavigation.  This will help you orient, and re-orient yourself to the object ...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/07/circumnavigating-object.html

It is my ultimate goal to provide echolocation training tools to those in need, those with a yearning for more independence, who might not have the resources or relationships to get the help they...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/07/coming-soon-free-echolocation-audio.html

Recently I had someone ask me about seeing shapes with echolocation and that he was having trouble doing so.  He could see distance - tell if something is in front of him or not - but was not a...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/07/edge-finding-edge-tracing-and-shape.html

While children’s access to nutrition and medicine are a large concern in the west like North American and Europe as well as well-to-do nations like Japan and Singapore, things are a bit diffe...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/06/echolocation-to-assist-blind-in.html

Since the dawn of time man kind has been struggling to survive on a planet covered in species stronger and faster than ourselves.  Very few of our traits stack up again our predators save for ou...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/06/echolocation-and-evolution-of-mankind.html

A recent survey published by Durham University in the UK indicated that visually impaired persons are far less likely to use echolocation in a foreign environment due to the difficulty it present...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/06/echoloacting-in-foreign-environment.html

Witnessing the evolution of a skill set that has the power to change people's lives so profoundly is a great feeling.  It's not often that such a wonderful new technology or revelation comes aro...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-echolocation-movement-gets-good.html

>  From a new study published by the University of Southampton: > The results showed that both sighted and blind people with good > hearing, even if completely inexperienced w...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-echolocation-research-published.html

I recently put this video together to spread the word of echolocation to those who need more information.  It provides a clear cut, simple explanation of exactly what it is and how it's used. ...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/04/video-what-is-echolocation.html

Well that is indeed quite a question. After all, different people tend to react differently to a given stimulus. One person may find a specific stimulus annoying or even outright disturbing can b...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/04/does-same-noise-sound-same-to-two.html

Have you ever attended an orchestra or an indoor concert? Did you notice anything particularly in your general surroundings? Well, if you didn’t, then perhaps you’ll take note of the way the ...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-are-sound-reflectors.html

World War II gave us many advances in technology, but one of the lesser known things that is directly related to echolocation is the “Sound Mirror” At first they seem baffling and quite str...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/03/sound-mirrors-used-during-wartime.html

A recent email from a reader got me thinking about sensory overlap.  We have these five wonderful senses that we generally think are each doing their own thing to provide us with information.  ...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/02/sensory-overlap-in-humans.html

The resonant frequency of a room is a concept often discussed in acoustic design, such as the layout of an auditorium or music studio.  It could also be a topic of discussion when installing a h...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2013/01/resonant-frequency-of-room.html

Any sound wave, upon striking an object in its path has the option to do one or all of the following three things:  Be reflected, diffused or absorbed by the object. The type of object in que...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-three-options-of-sound-wave.html

I was doing pushups recently and noticed an interesting effect that you might want to experience on your own. I was breathing deeply as one tends to do under exertion and listening to the soun...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2012/12/echolocation-pushups.html

When we echolocate, it's not necessarily important to understand the physics and psychology of what is going on, but for me, that level of detail is fascinating, and while I might not be able to ...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2012/12/visualizing-sounds-around-us.html

The cane is probably the most popular tool for blind mobility.  People who use it regularly are generally very comfortable with it.  As I attempt to introduce echolocation as a mobility tool ...

http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2012/11/advantages-of-echolocation-for-blind.html