LOS ANGELES - LEGO has created an interactive new way to help blind and visually impaired children learn how to read Braille. The project is called LEGO Braille Bricks, which are customized LEGO ...

LEGO is testing a redesigned version of the iconic childhood toy that is meant to help blind or visually impaired children learn braille in an engaging way. It's a big mission, given that only 10% of ...

In the United States, there has been a rapid decline in the number of visually impaired and blind children learning braille, going from over 50 percent in the 1950s to 10 percent today according to a ...

A new tool for teaching kids the Braille alphabet is inspired by a simple fact: A Lego-like toy brick, with two rows of three dots, is arranged exactly like a Braille cell. Designers realized that by ...

Bricks with studs corresponding to braille numbers and letters will be available to buy from September Lego is to begin selling bricks coded with braille to help blind and partially sighted children ...

Children with visual impairments will soon have a new, creative way to learn Braille. The LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group announced yesterday at a conference in Paris that the company would be ...