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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At first, Olivia struggled with braille. Then the 7-year-old, who is blind, played with Legos with braille on them and her ...

In Leonie Masterson's London classroom, students are learning to read by touch. All of the students are blind or sight-impaired, and today, 17-year-old Aya and 18-year-old Francis are helping their ...

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 ...

LEGO is bringing its Braille Bricks to the general public for the first time ever. The toy company initially released the special set to organizations that work with children with vision impairment, ...

More than a half of a million kids in the United States are visually impaired. That's according to a survey done by American Community Survey for the American Foundation for the Blind. Teaching kids ...

At first, Olivia struggled with braille. Then the 7-year-old, who is blind, played with Legos with braille on them and her interest soared. “Before then, she found it hard to get started with the ...