An Uplifiting Story About A Blind Boy Who Uses Sonar To See

The following is not the usual business/economic post you are used to seeing here on the Watchworld.

What you are about to view is an uplifting story about an extraordinary boy who lost his eyes to cancer at a very young age. Through the help and love of his family, especially his mother, he learned to see in way no other human has ever seen: with sonar. And with the help of other blind people who use echo location, this young man has learned from the blind leading the blind.

I'm placing this video here tonight knowing that there are Americans who are at their wits' end with mounting debt, loss of jobs, foreclosed homes, repoed cars, and full of despair. This video is for them. It might make some forlorn, hopeless person see some light at the end of the dark tunnel they've been traveling through for too long, just as this boy in this video learned to see things in a new way and learned to work with all the tools at his disposal, despite being blind.

This story about Ben Underwood is in five parts. If first aired on the BBC show "Extraordinary People".

Part 1




Part 2



Part 3



Part 4




Part 5