The concept
A play-based way of learning braille
Reading and writing braille change the lives of visually impaired children.
With the LEGO® Braille Bricks concept, children learn braille through play in inclusive settings.
The LEGO Braille Bricks toolkit
The LEGO brick studs are modified so that a given brick represents a given braille character.
A learning-through-play approach
Play makes learning easier, longer-lasting, helps memorisation and boosts self-confidence.
Playful educational activities
100 activities to develop academic and visual-specific skills from pre-braille to complete braille.
Children learn better through play
Play is powerful. Play brings joy, fosters creativity, and supports children’s learning and development. When children experiment and discover, learnings lasts.
Children can work on different skills
With the LEGO Braille Bricks activities, children can simultaneously work on academic skills and skills specific to visual impairment, approved by an international group of experts in education and visual impairment.
Children can learn in inclusive setting
The printed letter or character on each brick ensures the tool is inclusive, allowing sighted teachers and classmates to interact on equal terms with the blind or visually impaired child. All children in the classroom can work on the same academic skills, using different tools, whether they are braille bricks or pen and paper.
The LEGO Braille Bricks concept
is a toolkit with more than 100 activities
to learn braille.
Each box contains
300 bricks in lots of different colours.
We used the standard LEGO brick
with eight studs.
But we removed the bottom two.
The studs are arranged
to correspond to the numbers
and letters of the braille code.
As the characters are also printed
in black, the braille bricks can also be used
in inclusive settings,
with sighted peers and teachers.
There are letters, punctuation marks,
and accented characters
that turn into numbers
when preceded by the number-sign
or become capital letter
with the capital letter-sign,
just like in the braille code, on paper.
The bricks are in the alphabet
of your language, in this case English.
Each box in each language contains enough
letters and numbers
to do all the activities.
There are also three baseplates in the box,
so that several children can play together,
and so that the teachers
can sort the bricks and save time.
And…what is that for?
This is a brick separator.
New bricks can be difficult to remove.
You use it as a lever, and off it comes!
So how do you teach braille
with all this?
We’ve come up with over 100 activities
to prepare young children
to read and write,
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by getting used to the braille characters.
And to teach them to write words,
make up stories, do maths and geometry.
Blind and visually impaired children
also develop other skills:
social, emotional, physical, creative,
all while playing with LEGO,
a game that all children know!
And these are real LEGO,
completely compatible
with any other bricks!