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LEGO® Braille Bricks help
children with blindness
learn braille through play.

The Braille Program
helps teachers to use them.

Learn Braille, Through Play

Did you know that reading braille is a life-changing skill for visually impaired children?  Braille opens doors to education, independence and employment.

Every LEGO Braille Brick has a braille character on it. With more than 100 activities, blind and visually impaired children have the opportunity to learn braille through play.


The LEGO Braille Bricks toolkits and training are provided free of charge to professionals working with visually impaired children.

Discover the LEGO Braille Bricks concept

So the LEGO Braille Bricks project
started by blind and visual impairment
organisations reaching out to us.
At that point of time, it was a pretty rough idea,
but nevertheless, everybody could just see
the idea and really wanted to be part
of making a difference.
We really quickly reached out
to blind associations
around the world to give their input
and help on testing this.
Well,
the first thing that went through my mind
when I first saw the LEGO Braille Bricks
was absolutely game changing.
What we quickly discovered
was that actually, it would make sense
for us to use the 2 x 4 brick
and then remove the 2 lower studs.
So when you look at the LEGO Braille Bricks,
the studs are representing the different
letters in the braille alphabet, numbers
or symbols.
The cool thing about the LEGO
Braille Bricks is it invites inclusivity.

Teach braille with a toolkit of activities

The method provides activities to work with multiple academic and visual impairment skills.
The activities are divided into 3 sections :

Pre-
braille

Pre-braille activities are generally for younger children who need to manipulate and practice fine motor skills before they can learn to read and write.

Basic
braille

Basic braille activities help children to recognize and play with letters and numbers.

Braille

The braille section is full of playful literacy and numeracy activities.

Discover all the activities

Pre-braille

  • Brick orientation
  • Multi-sensory
  • Pretend play

Make the River Flow

Create an unbroken line… and make the water flow!

Basic braille

  • Bi-manual
  • Imagination
  • Letters

The Snackbar

What’s your favourite sandwich? Choose the first letters of your ingredients and make your own delicious sandwich!

Braille

  • Comparing
  • Fine motor skills
  • Numeracy

Throw your numbers

Throw them high and see how much you get!

More on teaching braille 

Teachers and practitioners of visually impaired children form a large community of professionals around the world. With their help, we share knowledge and experiences that can benefit everyone.

Young girl wearing glasses and a beige bib, seated at a wooden table, reading a Braille book with her hands in a classroom setting.

How does braille reading work? First follow the lines.

Braille is read tactilely with the 2 index fingers, supported by the other fingers. The most sensitive part of the finger is the pad, not the tip as you might think.

  • Braille
  • Literacy
A teacher helping a group of young children work on a colorful building block activity in a classroom setting.

Making Math Together

With numbers and letters written in print, LEGO Braille Bricks are easy to use in inclusive settings. For math, the bricks' mobility is another advantage.

  • Inclusion
  • Maths
Young boy focused on playing with colorful building blocks on a table, with a small white rabbit figurine in the center, as an adult hand offers another block nearby

Preparing for Braille with DUPLO Blocks

Almost all pre-braille activities can be done with DUPLO to prepare the children to reading as soon as possible.

  • Manipulation
  • Pre-braille
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Braille is a game changer!

You need to do the button.
Oh, okay, I’ll do it.
All right then, you go and find the button for me.
I’m just going to ask you some questions now.
Tell me what your favorite letters are in the in the alphabet.
M!
Why M?
I like M, I don’t know why!
Joshua came to England, when he was five years of age.
Joshua’s syndrome is a Norrie syndrome.
So he was born with no vision, and he has a deteriorating
hearing at some stage in his life.
When he joined us, we had to take him completely back to the beginning of
investigating different textures as he would sit
and he wouldn’t engage with anything that we put in front of him.
If I’m honest, when I first met Joshua, I think
I didn’t expect where we were, where we are today.
Do you like braille?
Can you give me an answer rather than nodding your head?
Yes I do.
So for Joshua to actually be reading very simple
three four letter words,
it’s been amazing in our journey for where we are today.
What books do you like reading?
The lion and the mouse. My favorite.
The lion and the mouse.
That’s the one you’re reading at the moment, isn’t it?
It’s my favorite. Fantastic.
For Joshua, it’s just access, inclusion of… simple words
again, numbers, writing a list.
All of a sudden, Joshua’s world has opened up to learn more.
For those out on the braille journey with a visually impaired child,
their world can be quite limited.
Whereas hopefully now he’s more engaged
and more inquisitive.
Because people, I think, usually just talk to Joshua
And tell him. Where with braille, he becomes independent.