Lego to sell bricks coded with braille to help vision-impaired children read

We’re super excited about these braille coded bricks from LEGO.

The Guardian breaks down the details here:

Lego is to begin selling bricks coded with braille to help blind and partially sighted children learn to read the touch-based alphabet.

The Danish toymaker has been providing the specialist bricks, which were tested and developed in partnership with blind organisations around the world, free of charge to a selection of schools and services catering for vision-impaired children since 2020.

From next month, shoppers will be able to buy packs of the bricks, which have studs corresponding to the braille version of numbers and letters with a printed version of the symbol or letter below, to use at home.

In addition to the bricks themselves, LEGO’s documentation and learning tools look promising.

via boingboing


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