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Our Services Pages are being updated to include our expanded suite of Visioneers Services. We’re updating all of this in real time, so you can visit often to watch the progress, and we thank your for your patience with links that aren’t live or any other inconveniences. We hope to have everything completed very soon.
SERVICE CATEGORIES
WHO ARE VISIONEERS?
OUR TEAM VISIONEERS FREEDOM
VISIONEERS.ORG | World Access For The Blind is one of the few organizations in the world inspired by blind people, built by blind people, and led by blind people, and we are known throughout the world for our ground breaking and effective Master’s Degree level work.
In the case of Visioneers, when the blind lead the blind, they learn a new way to see.
We know about blindness. We know about the realities of achievement through ingenuity, adaptation, and perseverance. We are uniquely capable of helping you infuse your project with a solid understanding of blindness, and it is our pleasure.
140+Years of Combined “Blind” Experience
Lead Visioneer Daniel Kish is the first blind person to achieve national certification in Orientation and Mobility. His pioneering FlashSonar™ Perceptual Navigation training has enabled former students to become fellow Visioneers who are now teaching a new generation. Learn more about our Visioneers.
We can provide sound information and guidance to any blindness project. Are you planning a project about blindness in research, legal proceedings, assistive technology development, a film or documentary, a book or article, a disability awareness program, a class project, or a fund raising campaign?
Do you want your project to address blindness respectfully and accurately? Do you want to avoid mistakes made so often that denigrate or threaten the integrity of blind people? Much harm has been done to blind people out of good but mis-guided intentions.
Our approach to blindness is clear, broad, and respectful. It is unparalleled in its focus on self-reliance and possibility. It is based on capability, not deficiency; achievement not struggle. It is based on the latest research in human perception, and rooted in the exemplary experiences and successes of many blind people.
Call us or email us for a free consultation to learn more about our expanded suite of Visioneering services:
Call toll-free (in the U.S.) +1-866-396-7035 | Email: info@visioneers.org
WHAT IS VISIONEERING?
VISIONEERING IS THE FUSION OF . . .
‘No Limits’ high-performance mobility and perception modalities engineered by Daniel Kish to teach blind persons to ‘see with sound’ and become more self-directed in living an independent life of ‘Perceptual Freedom’.
Visioneering is like moving into warp drive beyond traditional Orientation & Mobility training for blind people. We apply the same cutting-edge techniques to teach blind and sighted people new ways to see and think through challenges to solutions whether they be at home, at school or in the workplace.
VISIONARY ENGINEERING OF ACTIVATIONAL SOLUTIONS
ACTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS PREVIEW
Activational Speakers Preview
Upgrade from Motivational to Activational Speakers whose forward-thinking perceptions are Visioneered into action solutions for blind and sighted people.
Watch as our Master’s Degree level Visioneers re-engineer and re-calibrate everyone’s presumed perceptions about the capabilities of blind people through examples of our students shredding the cardboard “Help me. I am Blind.” cardboard signs, and kicking the tin cups to the curb, as they accept nothing less than their human right to self-directed freedom to achieve and contribute as equal citizens. Learn how we use the same principals to teach blind and sighted people to see through the “dark unknown” of challenges at home, school or work.
See why Fortune 500s and organizations such as TED, PayPal, PopTech, Proctor and Gamble, and more have booked and acclaimed our Activational Speakers. And then, get in touch to book one or more of them to make your event ACTIVATIONAL!
GLOBAL: TED Conference
Lead Visioneer Daniel Kish is named a Top Ten Talk at the TED event in Vancouver.
Watch Daniel’s presentation.
PERSONAL VISIONEERING PREVIEW
Personal Visioneering Preview
We Visioneer high-performance, capacity-building, personal growth and perceptual navigation instruction, as well as education planning and advocacy for blind persons, their families, service providers and more, at any stage of vision loss.
Our Visioneering concept reflects emerging findings that blindness isn’t about not seeing; it’s about NEW ways of seeing.
The development, field-testing, refinement and documentation of our approach is uniquely led by our qualified and skilled blind Visioneers. The majority of our Instructional Visioneers have Master’s Degrees in Special Education and other studies. They are allied with a cross-disciplinary network of scientists, psychologists, neurologists, educators and therapists.
Please learn more on our Personal Visioneering page.
ICELAND: Never Give Up
Nurturing the possibilities in little Ran. Blind, and deaf in one ear, we help her ‘rise up!’
PROFESSIONAL VISIONEERING PREVIEW
Professional Visioneering Preview
Upgrade your skill-set with our Certification Course
We Visioneer individual and group workshops for education and blindness professionals, enriching professional development and activational leadership to help advance the Orientation and Mobility (O&M) field. Here are some evaluation scores from a workshop we presented at Perkins School for the Blind: 5 Strongly Agree 4 Slightly Agree 3 Neutral 2 Slightly Disagree 1 Strongly Disagree
Workshop speakers were knowledgeable and well organized: 4.53 | Did you gain new knowledge or skills? 5 | Did the course reinforce or refine your present skills? 4.93 | Class activities were relevant to the topic: 4.93 | Will the course make a difference in the work that you do? 5
See more results on our Professional Visioneering page.
THAILAND: Coaching Clinics
Visioneering FlashSonar™ and Perception Cane training for blind mobility coaches.
EDUCATIONAL VISIONEERING PREVIEW
Educational Visioneering Preview
Make your next Science Fair Activational!
It doesn’t matter if it’s in a classroom, in an auditorium, or via a long-distance Skype video call or Conference, Visioneers can bring an Activational amount of ‘cool’ to your school.
How cool would it be to learn to ‘see’ in the dark just like bats, dolphins and some whales? And yes, even movie action-heroes like ‘Daredevil’. There’s so much to learn about the Science of FlashSonar, the Biology of how it works in humans and animals as well as the History and Social Studies aspects of how blind people have been treated in society over the years, and the Geography aspects of what we’ve learned in the 40+ countries where we’ve provided services.
Book some ‘cool for your school’! Read more on our Educational Visioneering Page.
USA: Distance Learning
Visioneer J. Steele-Louchart interacts with a classroom of Science students via Skype.
ENTERPRISE VISIONEERING HIGHLIGHTS
Enterprise Visioneering Preview
Visioneering is turning vision into action!
Does your Team often hit a blind spot, lose their way and their motivation, especially if they run into a dead end? Are you missing out on customer groups with different needs and abilities?
We can Visioneer Activational Solutions via Keynote Speeches, Team-building and Leadership exercises, Sensory workshops and more. We teach blind persons to see in a new way, and we teach sighted people to see better.
Find out why Fortune 500s like Apple, Microsoft, PayPal, and Proctor & Gamble book and acclaim our services, as we take Teams from Motivational to Activational!
Read more on our Enterprise Visioneering Page.
USA: Proctor & Gamble
Lead Visioneer Daniel Kish presents a keynote address at P&G’s Annual Meeting.
HEALTH & WELLNESS HIGHLIGHTS
OUR STUDENT LEGACY: OLDER VISIONEERS ‘PAY IT FORWARD’
One of the proudest legacies of the 16+ years of effort by Daniel Kish to teach blind persons to ‘see with sound’ is that older, experienced students are ‘paying it forward’ by inspiring, and sharing knowledge with, a younger generation of blind students.
In fact, our VISIONEERS Instructors were once our earliest students.
Personal Growth High Performance Visioneering Services
include:
Perceptual Navigation Instruction in FlashSonar™ & Perception Cane Training | Student & Family Advocacy | Capacity Building
ICELAND: Never Give Up
Nurturing the possibilities in little Ran. Blind, and deaf in one ear, we help her ‘rise up!’
USA: Jake Lives His Dream
Former WAFTB blind student Jake Olson longsnaps for the USC Trojans football team.
USA: Paying It Forward
Jake Olson ‘pays it forward’ via inspiration to two other blind Visioneers’ students.
CANADA: Blind Beginnings
FlashSonar™ alumnus Shawn Marsolais ‘pays forward’ what she learned from Daniel Kish.
Read more inspiring stories and learn more about our HEALTH & WELLNESS SERVICES
MEDIA & PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
OUR STUDENT LEGACY: OLDER VISIONEERS ‘PAY IT FORWARD’
One of the proudest legacies of the 16+ years of effort by Daniel Kish to teach blind persons to ‘see with sound’ is that older, experienced students are ‘paying it forward’ by inspiring, and sharing knowledge with, a younger generation of blind students.
In fact, our VISIONEERS Instructors were once our earliest students.
Personal Growth High Performance Visioneering Services
include:
Perceptual Navigation Instruction in FlashSonar™ & Perception Cane Training | Student & Family Advocacy | Capacity Building
USA: ‘KISH’ Great Big Story
Film profile of Daniel Kish at CNN’s Great Big Story and co-produced with CNN Films.
Learn more
USA: ‘Conquered’ TV
WAFTB student Calvin explains the benefits of his FlashSonar™ echolocation training.
Learn more
USA: CBS ‘Criminal Minds’
Daniel Kish provides consulting services on a storyline about a blind character.
Learn more
USA: Bushway On Uproxx TV
See Visioneer Brian Bushway’s journey from blindness at 14 to a new way of ‘seeing’.
Read more inspiring stories and learn more about our MEDIA & PRESS SERVICES
RESEARCH | SCIENCE | TECH HIGHLIGHTS
OUR STUDENT LEGACY: OLDER VISIONEERS ‘PAY IT FORWARD’
One of the proudest legacies of the 16+ years of effort by Daniel Kish to teach blind persons to ‘see with sound’ is that older, experienced students are ‘paying it forward’ by inspiring, and sharing knowledge with, a younger generation of blind students.
In fact, our VISIONEERS Instructors were once our earliest students.
Personal Growth High Performance Visioneering Services
include:
Perceptual Navigation Instruction in FlashSonar™ & Perception Cane Training | Student & Family Advocacy | Capacity Building
UK: Durham University
Visioneer Brian Bushway ‘donates his clicks to science’ as part of a pioneering study.
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CANADA: Brain & Mind Inst.
Visioneers partners in study of neuroscience under Prof. Mel Goodale at U of Western Ont.
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USA: Alcon Laboratories
Lead Visioneer Daniel Kish tests the SonarFlash™ at the labs of co-developer/sponsor Alcon.
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GERMANY: L.M.U. of Munich
Lead Visioneer Daniel Kish’s MRI scans show brain reaction to FlashSonar™ click echoes.
Learn more
Read more fascinating stories and learn more about our RESEARCH | SCIENCE | TECH SERVICES
SOCIAL VISIONEERING HIGHLIGHTS
OUR STUDENT LEGACY: OLDER VISIONEERS ‘PAY IT FORWARD’
One of the proudest legacies of the 16+ years of effort by Daniel Kish to teach blind persons to ‘see with sound’ is that older, experienced students are ‘paying it forward’ by inspiring, and sharing knowledge with, a younger generation of blind students.
In fact, our VISIONEERS Instructors were once our earliest students.
Personal Growth High Performance Visioneering Services
include:
Perceptual Navigation Instruction in FlashSonar™ & Perception Cane Training | Student & Family Advocacy | Capacity Building
USA: Blind/Sighted Cycling
Visioneers Juan Ruiz and Brian Bushway help lead a trail ride fundraiser of cyclists.
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SCOTLAND: Ethan Gives Back
Blind piano prodigy Ethan Loch’s fundraising concert to help other blind kids ‘see’.
USA: Alcon Event
And they’re off! Participants in Alcon-sponsored ‘Walk, Run, Ride’ fundraiser get underway.
Learn more
GLOBAL: #BlindNotBroken
Awareness campaign to dispel the perpetuated notion that blind persons aren’t capable.
USA: MIT Media Lab
Lead Visioneer Daniel Kish M.Ed /M.Psy, gives a Keynote and consults at MIT Media Lab.
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USA: Pepperdine University
Visioneer Brian Bushway, M.Ed, gives a keynote address at his alma-mater in Malibu, CA.
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USA: Pepperdine University
Visioneer Brian Bushway, M.Ed, gives a keynote address at his alma-mater in Malibu, CA.
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USA: Pepperdine University
Visioneer Brian Bushway, M.Ed, gives a keynote address at his alma-mater in Malibu, CA.
Learn more
Read more fascinating stories and learn more about our SOCIAL VISIONEERING SERVICES
LEARN MORE ABOUT VISIONEERS ACROSS ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS
MOST POPULAR
PERSONAL DONATIONS
YOUR GIFT ENABLES SO MUCH!
Our blind instructors with Masters Degrees provide services that are “ahead of the curve” from traditional blindness institutions, such as:
THE PRECIOUS GIFT OF TIME:
Did you know that 90% of a child’s brain is developed before the age of 5? Even some “developed” countries won’t teach blind children orientation, mobility and cane navigation until the age of 7. Do you realize how much developmental time is lost? We teach sonic and tactile awareness as early as possible and even put Perception canes in their hand as early as a year old.
TRAINING THE BRAIN:
FlashSonar clicks+Audible Awareness+Perception Cane activates the Visual Cortex, training the brain to rewire to develop SonarVision.
HELPING AUTISTIC BLIND KIDS:
We specialize in Special Education services and advocacy for families and Assessment Reports for School Districts, and much more.
DONATE BY CHECK
Please make the check payable to: World Access For The Blind and mail to:
Visioneers | World Access For The Blind
650 N. Rose Drive, #208
Placentia, CA 92870
All donations made in the United States are tax-deductible.
CORPORATE| ENTERPRISE DONATIONS
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR THOUGHTFUL AND GENEROUS SUPPORT!
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