Read the text and mark the statements T (true), F (false) or DS (doesn’t say).1 Daniel Kish uses an animal system to see images. ……… 2 Echolocation relies on one sense to work.…

Read the text and mark the statements T (true), F (false) or DS (doesn’t say).1 Daniel Kish uses an animal system to see images. ……… 2 Echolocation relies on one sense to work. ……… 3 Clapping noises can be used like clicking noises. ……… 4 The amount of time it takes to produce an echo determines an object’s size. ……… 5 It takes eight hours for sighted people to learn how to echolocate. ……… 6 After a day learning how to echolocate, it comes naturally. ……… 7 The aim of echolocation is to make blind people less reliant on others. ……… 8 Kish wishes echolocation was part of the education system. ……… 9 A person’s ability to echolocate is not all about how well they can hear. ……… 10 Echolocation enables blind people to do things that sighted people take for granted. ……… There are many things that we do, such as breathing, that come naturally to us. Using our senses - touch, sight, taste, smell and hearing - are essential parts of this natural intuition. So, if we had to lose one of them or didn’t have one, how would this affect the way we live? Maybe less than we think. Losing a sense simply means that our natural instincts are redirected to a different, functioning sense.hereas a sighted person's world is shaped by what they see, a blind person's is moulded bund. daniel kish, who has been blind since he was 13 months old, has adopted a system animals to map out, in his mind, where objects are. i by ish uses echolocation, a sensory system used by bats to navigate in the dark. in the same kish uses clicking sounds to determine where and how far away objects are. these ing noises send out physical sound waves that bounce back from physical surfaces. the th of time the sound takes to travel to the ear enables kish to conclude how far away the ct is. but it doesn't just determine how far away something is; he can recognise the rence between materials such as wood and metal, as well as an object's size. ne day, or just eight hours, all it takes for a blind person to develop such skills, says kish. ular practice is needed in order to be precise in movement and confident in stability, but t hours of hard work for independence is a small price to pay. ithough clicking is discouraged blind schools for attracting negative attention, kish says it's a good way for a blind person to gain independence. he has dedicated his life to hing blind people, particularly children, how to use sound in this special way. research into an echolocation has discovered that it has nothing to do with one person's hearing being Acute than another's. it's about the brain. scientists found that the part of the brain used ight is extremely active in people who can echolocate. so, instead of our brain forming an je through sight, it forms it through sound. cholocation enables blind people to do things that have always been thought impossible out vision. kish is an avid hiker and loves spend time alone in the wilderness. it there, ays, that he finds the peace and freedom he has worked hard to get.