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Use Vivid Imagery To Form Your Click
- Daniel Kish teaches concrete, imagery-based techniques to produce effective clicks, like imagining licking peanut butter off the roof of your mouth.
- Using vivid sensory images helps students form the exact mouthshape and rhythm Kish recommends for echolocation.
Learning A Click Later In Life
- Julian Bell learned echolocation from Daniel Kish and finally produced a reliable click using his instruction about the click sound.
- She had been blind since birth and only discovered echolocation at age 38, after which she began lessons with Kish.
Letting Go Led To A Dangerous Fall
- After mastering clicks, Julian tried to stop holding others' arms and practice independence, which created fear and tension in her family.
- While hiking with Daniel in Los Angeles she slipped and tumbled down a ravine, fortunately surviving with bruises after a friend helped stop her fall.