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Building with Braille
DARRIAN TRAYNOR/GETTY IMAGES
LEGO LEARNING: The bumps on each braille brick spell out letters and numbers in the braille alphabet.
Last year, Lego released a special set of bricks designed to help anyone learn braille—a system of writing used by people who are visually impaired. Each colorful braille brick is molded with raised dots that correspond to a number or letter in the braille alphabet. “Braille uses six dots to make up each character,” explains Martine Abel-Williamson, the president of World Blind Union. These dots are arranged in different patterns that people can read through touch.
Lego is selling its braille bricks as a kit. This kit also comes with suggested games and building projects to help make learning a new writing system fun for all.
Braille was invented in 1824 by 15-year-old Louis Braille, who was blind. The dot patterns below represent each letter in the alphabet.
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