Learn how to write your name in braille
A lesson plan is useful when working on a specific skill. Let’s see an example: teaching a student writing his first name.
A Toolkit of Activities for All Children
A Toolkit of Activities for All Children
LEGO Braille Bricks is a teaching method to help children learn braille and develop skills essential to understand concepts through play.
The method provides more than a hundred activities allowing to work with multiple academic and visual impairment skills.
The activities are divided in 3 sections: pre-braille, basic braille, and braille with 3 levels of difficulty, but no age recommendation (disabled children may have delays due to various health problems).
Note that :
The pedagogical material is intended as a starting point. Teachers will select and adapt the activities according to the needs of each child.
The child will be able to play and learn if the environment is accessible and supportive.
Educational activities are an essential
part of the LEGO Braille Bricks concept.
We have designed them to meet the needs of visually impaired
children and the requirements of school curriculums.
These activities can be used by any adults working with visually
impaired children, braille specialists or non specialists.
They are divided into three categories:
pre- braille, characters, and braille.
Pre-braille activities are mainly designed
for very young children to develop their sense of touch,
their fine motor skills, and their coordination.
LEGO Braille Bricks are designed for children
aged four and over.
Younger children can do most of these activities with DUPLO.
And remember it is important for children
to start as early as possible.
They are also some more challenging pre-braille activities
for older students to practice orientation strategies
and spatial awareness.
In the characters category,
activities aim to get children used to distinguishing combinations of dots
and learning letters and numbers in braille.
Finally, in the Braille activities, children practice reading,
writing and basic maths.
They can also tell stories, develop their imagination,
and interact with their peers.
Activities can be played by one, two or more children.
Even when an activity is designed for one participant,
they can be several children playing at the same time.
It’s often more fun.Nothing should take too long.
It’s better to do a series of short activities than to insist
on one long game.
For the convenience of teachers,
all the activity sheets are printable, available
in several languages and of course transcribed for braille embossing.
Pre-braille activities
Toddlers and young children develop tactile awareness and understand the basic concepts needed to learn braille, through manipulation and orientation.
Basic braille activities
Children learn how to differentiate patterns of dots to learn braille letters, numbers, mathematical symbols and punctuation marks.
Braille activities
Children assemble braille characters to play with words (literacy) and numbers (numeracy).
Lesson plans
Lesson plans help children to develop complex skills that require prerequisites and multiple steps to achieve.
They typically include:
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Learning objectives: what pupils need to learn
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How these objectives will be achieved: what activities will be used
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A way of measuring progress: observation, assessment, homework.
