"If you're not having fun, then you're missing out on something." - Brian Bushway
‘We All Face the Dark Unknown’
SUCCESS Magazine - August, 2015Shelley Levitt
"How Daniel Kish, who’s been sightless since he was 13 months old, taught himself to see through the blindness—to find vision in the echoes"
Daniel Kish and Brian Bushway illustrate the process of learning to see with sound for Success Magazine.
IS It Possible to See without Sight? - Brian Bushway
Discovery Canada: Daily Planet - April 9, 2015Brian is put to the challenge of using his FlashSonar to describe a random sculpture for a forensic artist to draw, unseen.
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Brian's Work with Students in Belize
You Can't Lick Your Own Elbow - Brian Bushway
National Geographic TV - April, 2015Explores how the human brain can make possible what seems impossible.
Not by Sight
Joni and Friends ministries, International Disability Center - circa April, 2008 ©This documentary provides a comprehensive and inspiring overview of the life of Brian Bushway, and his work through World Access for the Blind.
Unveiled: Brian Bushway
Mosaic - 2007This short video provides an entertaining and inspiring glimpse into the remarkable life of Brian Bushway, one of our perceptual mobility coaches.
Children Need Love
Calcutta Mercy Ministries - August, 2010This short but powerful video provides a touching and revealing exposé on our work with students in India, featuring Brian Bushway.
MBA RIDERS WHO INSPIRE: An unlikely mountain bike leader
March, 2009By John Ker
Brian Bushway was selected for this special feature as one of MBA's most inspiring riders.
Brain Awareness Week 2014 - University of Nevada, Reno
Brian Bushway speaks about his life, and how what he has learned supports innovations in brain science.
FlashSonar: Surprising Solutions You Never Knew About; Brian Bushway
CBS: The Doctors - August 28, 2009" After losing his sight at age 14, Brian learned to use echo location to navigate the world. The same principles apply to that of the sonar bats and dolphins use."
Bat School for the Blind
BBC Switched - November, 2010This informative documentary showcases Brian Bushway, one of our Perceptual Mobility Coaches, teaching a course of FlashSonar to a teenaged boy from Wales, England, with verification of his progress by a scientist from U.C. Davis. This video is narrated by the boy himself.
Seeing Through Sound
CNN International: Vital Signs - June 18, 2014Sanjay Gupta
Coverage of one of our Perceptual Mobility Coaches, Brian Bushway, and Daniel Kish conducting a family workshop with Juan Ruiz in Nuernberg, Germany.
Braille Challenge
Brian Bushway, Keynote - March, 2010Meet Brian Bushway
Round Pizza In A Square Box - 2013by Amitabh Singh
Amitabh Singh is an international author and speaker who raises awareness and support for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. "I have dedicated Round Pizza in a Square Box to three individuals who have inspired me to live and think differently." Tells Brian's story, and how he learned to see through FlashSonar.
Hiking, by way of echolocation
Daily Pilot (Partner to the Los Angeles Times) - August 19, 2010 By Sarah PetersFeatures Brian Bushway, Perceptual Navigation Instructor, interviewed.
"It really is a testimony to the adaptability of the human brain and the human spirit."
No End in Sight
30 Minutes West - March 3rd, 2013"As a teenager, Brian Bushway's optic nerve started playing tricks on him. It changed the colors he saw, blurred out details, and grew darker by the week. But as his vision loss set in, he began exploring his world through sound, and now scientists are studying him and his friends to find out how far they can push the limits of human perception. His story is both inspiring and strangely terrifying, according to people that have heard it. This story was originally aired live at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry's extreme-sports-themed "After Dark" event in March of 2014." Also features an excellent interview with Juan Ruiz.
An Inspirational To Us All
Kimyung Kim: Youth Motivational Speaker - January 14, 2014A great personal reflection on Brian Bushway.
"I had the opportunity to chat with one of my favorite people recently, my friend Brian Bushway. He's one of the most amazing people I know. He's an accomplished bass player, a life giving teacher, and an avid mountain biker, which may not be impressive to you, until I tell you that Brian is blind.... he became determined to change people's minds of what a blind person can actually do and become. He's a motivational speaker, and through his accomplishments he challenges and inspires people. He asks the question, 'if I can do all this without sight, then what's possible for your life?' This is the paradox of it all. That a man could lose his sight, and gain such a great vision. That a man could go completely blind and somehow help all of us to see."
Mapping with Clicks
American Public Media (APM): The Story - July 30, 2013 By Dick Gordon"Brian Bushway is blind and uses echolocation, a soft clicking sound, to orient himself. He says it allows him to identify the spatial relationships between objects and find a path to move in. He became legally blind when he was 14 and now teaches this technique to interested blind people."
Echolocation Makes Mountain Biking, Skiing Possible For The Blind
Here & Now, 90.9 WBUR, Boston's NPR - June 9, 2011Robin Young
"If you're blind, you may have thought sports like skate boarding and mountain biking were off limits. But Daniel Kish, founder of World Access for the Blind has other ideas. ... Brian Bushway, a former student who now trains others in flash sonar, defended Flash Sonar to Here & Now's Robin Young, saying it provides unparalleled independence for the blind."
Seeing Beyond Sight
New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR)Brian Bushway talks about using FlashSonar and other senses to see, even though he's totally blind, and how to teach others to do this.
Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA - 2010-2011
Brian Bushway: Team Building and Inspirational PresentationsJeremy Cook, PhD
Dan Chomycia: What a sighted Self-Defense Instructor gained from our work
Autumn, 2013A fully sighted self defense instructor's detailed account of his work with Brian Bushway, in his own words. "Thank you for an unforgettable experience,... I was amazed at the amount of things I could hear and how precise I could be. ... This experience has been very good for my brain and I have a new way to experience the world. I can see that there are things that crossover the to the sighted world as well."
From the Parents of a Young Girl Named Jordan
Discovering true powers
Special to The Malibu Times - April 11, 2007 By Melonie MagruderBushway says, "Just because you can't see doesn't mean you can't do most of the same activities everyone else does. You just do them in a different way."
Deep - Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, by James Nestor, book review
The Independent - July 24, 2014by Horatio Clare
"By their clicking echolocation dolphins can detect objects six miles away. They "see" into two feet of sand and straight through human bodies.
Nestor is so engaged and Schnöller so engaging that you cheer for them: Deep is a passionate celebration of the possible and the unproven. The huge brains and complex clicks-within-clicks of whales and dolphins lead Schnöller to believe that dolphins exchange three dimensional images. Having sonically mapped an object, Schnöller speculates, they may then transmit that pattern to another individual.
"This seems plausible as Nestor pushes into unfamiliar waters. In Los Angeles he meets a blind man, Brian Bushway, who navigates the city with sighted confidence by clicking. Nestor tries it too"
Ready to Go, CTEVH, Brian Bushway Keynotes
February 28, 2008; Los Angeles, CaliforniaBrian Bushway, Perceptual Mobility Coach, delivers a keynote presentation at the California Transcribers and Educators of the Visually Handicapped regional conference.
Turning Sound into Sight - Brian Bushway
Blind Living Radio - April, 2015Danielle Creapeau and Harley Thomas