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===Lucas Murray=== '''Lucas Murray''', from [[Poole, Dorset]], was born blind, and is one of the first British people to have learned human echolocation, having learned it from [[Daniel Kish]].{{sfn|Joseph|2009}} Lucas' parents saw a documentary about Daniel Kish teaching Ben Underwood echolocation.<!-- Inappropriate reference:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.benunderwood.com/ |title=Ben Underwood | Blind Boy Who Could See |website=benunderwood.com |accessdate=2025-02-22}}</ref>-->{{sfn|BBC News|2009}} Months later, they learned that Daniel would be visiting a Scottish charity called Visibility<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://visibilityscotland.org.uk/|title=Visibility Scotland - Listening and responding to people affected by sight loss across Scotland|website=Visibility Scotland |accessdate=2025-02-22}}</ref> and contacted him. Kish taught the five-year-old Lucas the basics of echolocation over four days. By age seven, Lucas was proficient enough to not only accurately tell the distance of objects, but also their material, and could play with other children in sports such as rock climbing and basketball.{{sfn|Irvine|2009}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rnib.org.uk/who-we-are/action-for-blind-people|title=Action for Blind People merged with RNIB|date=2017-03-23 |website=RNIB - See differently |accessdate=2025-02-22}}</ref> In 2019, he enjoyed a week's [[work experience]] with [[South Western Railway (train operating company)|South Western Railway]].<ref name="cartlidge">{{cite news |last=Cartlidge |first=Sarah |title="The best work experience ever": Blind teenager enjoys "phenomenal" placement |url=https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/17649733.the-best-work-experience-ever-blind-teenager-enjoys-phenomenal-placement/ |access-date=2020-05-28 |work=Bournemouth Echo |date=2019-05-19}}</ref>
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