"Mountain Bike
Action Magazine"
Article
In the May 2001 issue of "Mountain Bike Action Magazine", an excellent article about Team Bat was published called "Blind Faith". The author, John Ker spent a day riding with the group, and wrote a heartfelt account of his experience.
Upcoming and Recent Events
2003Nov. 7, 2003: World Access for the Blind's vision replacement approach is featured on "More Than Human," aired on the Discovery Channel.
Nov. 7, 2003: Daniel Kish and Juan Ruiz (Instructional Coach) present on a panel of experienced blind travelers, deliver a seminar on vision substitution, and conduct an echolocation training workshop at the Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation way finding conference in conjunction with the Northern California Association of Orientation and Mobility Specialists.
Nov. 29, 2003: Daniel Kish will be interviewed about the abilities of blind people for a Washington radio program called Vital Signs, airing on 101.1 FM.
Nov. 20, 2003: Daniel Kish presents on including blind children in the regular classroom at Chapman University, California.
Nov. 2, 2003: World Access for the Blind's vision replacement approach and No Limits philosophy are featured in the Washington World newspaper.
Oct. 23, 2003: Daniel Kish participates in a national agenda meeting in Wisconsin to lay the ground work for a new university training program in Orientation and Mobility, and presents on the subject of blind O&M Specialists in conjunction AER mid-western regional conference.
Oct. 10, 2003: Daniel Kish and Hector Elias (Instructional Coach) conduct a 2 day training camp for echolocation and self reliance sponsored by Michigan School for the blind and Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation.
Sept. 3, 2003: Daniel Kish conducts a 2-and-a-half day training workshop for O&M Specialists and rehab teachers at Idaho Commission for the Blind.
Sept. 22, 2003: Daniel Kish presents to senior management and facility employees of Alcon Labs Corporation in Irvine California about echolocation technology and the Seeing without Sight concept.
July 13-20, 2003: Daniel Kish and Juan Ruiz (Instructional Coach) conduct a week long echolocation training course for blindness professionals, and blind adults and children for El Centro de Estudios para Invidentes A.C. (CEIAC) in Chihuahua, Mexico.
June 28, 2003: Daniel Kish and Hector Elias (Instructional Coach) deliver a seminar on visual prostheses, and the functional implications and remediations of eye diseases at the University of California, Irvine Medical Learning Center.
April 7, 2003: Daniel Kish presents with Jay Squires (Former Junior Coach) on including blind children in the regular classroom at Chapman University, California.
April 25, 2003: Daniel Kish presents on the nature of blindness to a 5th grade class at Fremont Elementary School in conjunction with the Blind Children's Learning Center.
March 14, 2003: Daniel Kish presents two echolocation training workshops to blindness professionals, parents, and blind students, sponsored by the Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired in Van Couver, British Columbia, Canada.
March 12-13, 2003: Daniel Kish presents two echolocation training workshops to blindness professionals at the northwestern AER regional conference in Van Couver, Washington, sponsored by AER Washington chapter.
2002
Nov. 6, 2002: Daniel Kish and Juan Ruiz (Instructional Coach) deliver a motivational speech to United Way donors in Irvine California, sponsored by the United Way.
Nov. 2, 2002: Daniel Kish delivers a seminar and workshop on using and teaching echolocation to the Southern California Assoc. of O&M Specialists.
Nov. 14, 2002: Daniel Kish delivers a seminar on vision substitution and conducts an echolocation training workshop at the Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation way finding conference in conjunction with the A.E.R. Southern Regional Conference in Orlando Florida.
Oct. 9, 2002: Daniel Kish presents a half day workshop to the Idaho Commission for the Blind on Echolocation: Use and Training.
Oct. 18, 2002: Daniel Kish delivers a seminar via video tele-conference to blindness professionals throughout British Columbia, Canada, on fostering self-reliance in blind students through Echolocation, hosted by the Sunny Hill Health Center for Children.
Sept. 17, 2002: Daniel Kish presents about physical development and activity in the blind to California State University, Fullerton.
July 28, 2002: Daniel Kish gives a motivational talk to parents for disabled children at Camp TLC in Oak Glen, California
April 13, 2002: Daniel Kish presents on Vision Replacement and Enhancement at the Institute of Innovative Blind Navigation way finding conference hosted by Western Michigan University. March 5, 2002: Daniel Kish presents a seminar on vision replacement and enhancement, and an impromptu workshop on echolocation training at the Institute of Innovative Blind Navigation way finding conference in conjunction with the northwestern A.E.R. Regional Conference in Portland, Oregan.
2001
Oct. 29, 2001: Daniel Kish appears with Jay Squires (former Junior Coach) in the Washington World Newspaper riding a mountain bike, and discussing echolocation and KASPA (invented by Dr. Leslie Kay).
Oct. 19, 2001: Daniel Kish and Jay Squires (former Junior Coach) present on how to help blind students meet the world head on to parents of blind children at the Washington Services for the Blind, Child Family conference.
July, 2001: An article on TEAMBAT is published in the Ripley's "Believe It or Not" book.
June, 2001: Daniel Kish discusses KASPA (invented by Dr. Leslie Kay, Director of SonicVision) in "Popular Science."
June 18-19, 2001: Daniel Kish delivers 2-day workshop to rehabilitation faculty at Western Michigan University on the training of blind Orientation and Mobility Specialist trainees.
May, 2001: Daniel Kish and Andrew Griffin of the Blind Children's Learning Center appear with students in "Mountain Bike Action Magazine" to demonstrate the TEAMBAT project.
April 24, 2001: Daniel Kish appears with students while mountain biking on NBC news to demonstrate KASPA, and SonicVision product invented by Dr. Leslie Kay.
March 7, 2001: Daniel Kish and Hannah Bleier of Blind Children's Center present on the use of sonic echolocation by blind adults at Guide Dogs of San Rafael.
Feb. 23, 2001: Daniel Kish appears on the Sallie Jessie Raphael show, featured with students on Ripley's "Believe It or Not" This national appearance demarks the official opening of this web site. World Access for the Blind is officially open for business.
Jan. 10, 2001: One of technological devices that World Access for the Blind was featured in an article on PBS. KASPA, an ultrasonic sonar device created by Dr. Leslie Kay, was part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) radio series. You can hear the entire article (90 seconds).
2000
Dec. 5, 2000: World Access for the Blind staff presented information to the press at the December 2000 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, in connection with where Dr. Leslie Kay, keynote speaker on the achievements of "sonic vision" or "seeing with sound".
Dec. 11, 2000: Daniel Kish describes some of the goals of World Access for the Blind in an article of Business Week. You can read the article here.
Nov. 4, 2000: Daniel Kish and Hannah Bleier from Blind Children's Center present on the teaching and use of sonic echolocation for blind children at the California Association of Orientation and Mobility Specialists state conference.
Oct. 19-20, 2000: Daniel Kish presents on issues of braille literacy and assessment protocols for blind children at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind national conference.
Sept. 28, 2000: The diverse members of our organization incorporate into a single non-profit entity called "World Access for the Blind".