The boy who sees with sound
- 16 Nov 06, 12:51 PM
Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another story about an amazing disabled person, taking the world by storm. Actually though, this guy is sort of worth talking about.
Ben Underwood is a "skinny 14 year old", living in a 3 bedroom house in Sacramento, with his family. He got retinal cancer and had to have 2 prosthetic eyes at the age of 3, but let's just say he won't be begging on a street corner any time soon. According to many already written about him, Ben can "zip through town on inline skates", is an expert at Play Station games, and gets around using echolocation rather than the humble cane or canine, i.e. he makes constant clicking noises in order to recognise his environment. Click to read about the teenager in People magazine, and see a video of him "use echolocation to connect with dolphins".
The most refreshing thing about Ben is that he appears to have a life. Apparently, he spends most of his time talking to friends in person or on the phone, and the first time he "did the clicking thing", it was to find, and slap, a boy who had just hit him in the face.
Don't believe me? this CBS news report which has found it's way on to YouTube.
Comments
What a truly imspirational cilp! and the boy is very detrmined to live his life just by using echolocation.
Brilliant!
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