Daniel Kish holds Master's degrees in Developmental Psychology and Special Education. He holds a California state credential and national certification as an Orientation and Mobility Specialist. He has served in this capacity since 1996 as an itinerant instructor for many school districts and rehabilitation centers. Dan is one of the first and very few totally blind individuals to maintain long-term employment in this capacity.

From 1997 to 2001, Dan also coordinated all types of blindness educational and enrichment programs including assistive technology, vision instruction, mobility, student/family coaching, peer tutoring, and a mentor program. These programs involved visually impaired students throughout the greater Orange County area.

Dan has presented internationally in dozens of forums on all topics related to blindness. His main expertise lies in human, sonic echolocation. In this area he has conducted experimental pilot research to investigate the design of a training program for blind children. This work includes one of the most comprehensive literature reviews of the topic detailing the nature and utility of echolocation in humans. This, together with thousands of hours of experience with students, is soon to become publically available in several articles and monographs. This work forms the foundation of a systematic, comprehensive echolocation training curriculum, and the design of a device to enhance sonic echolocation. Dan has begun work with Dr. Leslie Kay (world renowned pioneer in airborn, ultrasonic sonar and inventor of the SonicGuide) to enhance the utility of his ultrasonic sonar technology, improve instructional strategies, and expand its availability. Dan is striving to combine sonic with ultrasonic echolocation to form a powerful and versatile approach to nonvisual spatial perception and control of movement.

Dan has also begun work with the Origan Research Institute to develop PC driven virtual reality models for acoustic instruction, and with the National Institute of Health to study how the human brain resolves spatial images from acoustic input. Dan and a colleague have recently completed a section on audition training for a textbook chapter on blindness issues. He has also made over half-a-dozen national TV appearances, usually with students, to demonstrate the functionality and educational relevance of human sonar as it applies to active, nonvisual movement.

Dan also coordinates a mountain biking project which applies echolocation and other techniques to enable independent, high speed movement through complex, unfamiliar environments by blind youth. This project was recently featured a long with some of Dan's more active students on Riply's "Believe It or Not" and NBC news.

Dan has recently founded a nonprofit company to mobilize cutting edge aproaches to making the world as accessible to the blind as it is to the sighted.