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Lucas Murray
Lucas Murray (born c. 2002), from Poole, Dorset, was born blind, but is one of the first British people to learn to visualise his surroundings using a technique similar to bats and dolphins, called echolocation. By the echo caused by clicking his tongue on the roof of his mouth, Murray can identify how close objects are, and what they are made of. He was taught the technique by another blind person, Daniel Kish from California.
==Biography==
Murray was born in Poole in Dorset with complex medical needs including Septo-Optic Dysplasia (S.O.D.). He was blind from birth but this was not confirmed until he was 5 months old. At this stage his parents, Sarah and Iain, believed his blindness would cause him problems. However, Sarah and Iain watched a documentary about a young American called Ben Underwood,〔http://www.benunderwood.com/〕 a boy who used echo-location that he had taught himself to a very high level. In the documentary, Daniel Kish, founder of the World Access for the Blind charity,〔http://www.worldaccessfortheblind.org/〕 spoke about not only echo-location but the importance of a Long Cane. Many months after seeing the documentary on television,〔 Sarah discovered that Daniel would be visiting a Scottish Charity called Visibility,〔http://www.visibility.org.uk/〕 so contacted him and asked if he could visit Lucas. Daniel Kish, a 41-year-old blind Californian, alongside Brian Bushway from World Access For The Blind taught the basics of echo-location and the importance of a suitable Long Cane to Lucas over the course of four days in 2007. 〔
Sarah says that the echo-location and "No Limits Approach"() has given Lucas a "fantastic future".() His parents have set up a charity called Common Sense,()() which aims to provide support for parents and carers of visually impaired children. They also offer long white canes to children in the UK, through The Common Sense Children's Cane Bank.
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