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World Access for the Blind

A spacious interior with wooden walls, large glass windows, and a high ceiling features two individuals walking away from the camera towards an open door at the end of the hallway.

California non-profit founded by Daniel Kish in 2000, headquartered in Long Beach. It teaches blind students, mostly children, to navigate independently using click-based echolocation, long-cane technique and what Kish calls perceptual mobility. Instructors work in more than forty countries. The organisation has supplied subjects for nearly every published fMRI study of expert human echolocation.

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