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Sort your Bricks!

Teachers want to make the most of the time they spend with their students. To get the most out of the LEGO® Braille Bricks, it is important to sort them and have the toolkit ready.

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  • Inclusion
  • Manipulation
  • Maths

How Can the Teaching of Mathematics be Adapted?

What makes teaching mathematics difficult for blind children and how can it be made more accessible? Testimonials and advice from specialist teachers.

  • Braille
  • Maths

Maths with a Specialist: Melissa Fanshawe’s Approach to Inclusive Maths Education

LEGO Braille Bricks allow students to manipulate numbers physically, making mathematical concepts more meaningful.

  • Braille
  • Inclusion

Everyone to the Braille Club!

Some schools, often motivated by the presence of a visually impaired student (VI), offer workshops or games in braille during extracurricular time.

  • Manipulation
  • Tactile exploration

Hands-on as Early as Possible

Vision plays a crucial role in a young child's development. However, for blind infants and children, the gateway to the world is through touch.

A child with glasses using colorful LEGO bricks on a baseplate to create a tactile learning activity at a table.
  • Pre-braille

Line Tracking: Straight to Braille!

Line tracking is an essential skill for learning braille.

A visually impaired child wearing a pink jacket and holding a white cane walks with an adult, holding hands, in a schoolyard with buildings in the background.
  • Braille

How to Teach Braille Without Being a Specialist ?

One piece of advice? Don’t be afraid!

A white container filled with colorful building blocks, including red, blue, yellow, green, and white braille bricks, some with letters or numbers printed on them.
  • Tips and tricks

Washing the Bricks

Cleaning frequently used LEGO® or DUPLO® is easy and sometimes necessary!

A small green building block base with colorful bricks spelling 'E5', 'M', and 'A1', placed on a cloth pouch with a whale pattern, resting on a wooden surface.
  • Tips and tricks

Prepare Transportable Kits

It is not always easy for a child with visual impairment to show their parents what they have learned at school. Here are some tips to help students share their learning at home.

A keyboard layout made with colorful LEGO bricks placed on a grey LEGO baseplate. Each brick represents a letter or symbol, including accented characters, in a visually organized grid.
  • Tips and tricks

Sort your Bricks!

Teachers want to make the most of the time they spend with their students. To get the most out of the LEGO® Braille Bricks, it is important to sort them and have the toolkit ready.

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
  • Manipulation
  • Pre-braille

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.

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

Doing Maths 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.

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

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.