People who are visually impaired (that is, those who are blind or have low vision) use a wide variety of sensory information to understand the world around them. Hearing is a particularly useful sense because of its range. Many visually impaired people use some form of echolocation to monitor the space around them (for example, the sound of a cane tip reflected off a wall is a common way to keep a parallel path without trailing or shore lining). One purpose of this report is to introduce the generic, catchall word "echoidentification" to refer to this skill categorically. A second purpose of this paper is to emphasize that it is within an orientation and mobility (O&M) specialist's scope of practice to teach students techniques for obtaining the most meaning out of sensory information to interpret the space around them. The third purpose of this paper is to provide some concrete strategies that may be useful to instructors interested in teaching higher-level echoidentification skills.