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

[The Straight Story]

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

[Love Bug]

1. How cool is that?

What an excellent idea!

[gblady]

2. what an amazing story....

thanks for sharing....

[dkf]

3. Wow. That is all I have to say.

[n2doc]

4. Now all he needs is a red suit and some ninja training and he's all set

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

[Jade Fox]

5. There is another boy who does that......

He was on Oprah a few years ago.

This boy had taught himself to navigate using echo location.

[Lisa0825]

7. Was it an African American teen? I remember seeing someone else too..

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

[Jade Fox]

8. Yes, that;s him....

So sorry to hear he died! :(

[Dappleganger]

6. There's a boy (now a teenager) in our neighborhood who's been blind

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.