The Boy Who Sees with Sound

Ben Underwood doesn't seem to know he's blind. He zooms around on his skateboard outside his home in Sacramento; and plays kickball with his buddies. To see him speed down hallways and make sharp turns around corners is to observe any other teen, except for the clicking sound.

Ben lost his sight at the age of 3, when retinal cancer claimed both his eyes. But he has learned to perceive and locate objects by making a steady stream of sounds with his tongue and then listening for the echoes as they bounce off the surfaces around him. [Read The Story]