Blind Teen Uses Echolocation to "See."

By Alex in Video Clips, World Records on Nov 27, 2006 at 9:44 pm

When Ben Underwood was 2 years old, his eyes were surgically removed because of cancer. Since then, he has somehow mastered echolocation, the way bats and dolphins use sound to navigate.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube], or read more about this remarkable teenager: CBS News | People Magazine | ABC
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  1. Acedia
    Nov 28th, 2006 at 7:32 am

    Wow — the kid’s confidence and abilities are phenomenal but the mom should be not only teaching a course in working with the “differently abled” but should be heaped with praises and honors for what she has accomplishe in the hardest and often most thankless job in the world, being a mother.

  2. Brent
    Nov 28th, 2006 at 6:27 pm

    That is really amazing. I have told a couple people about this.

  3. JuannyMendez
    Sep 8th, 2008 at 1:27 am

    I’m baffled as to how he plays video games.


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