Lego are selling bricks coded with braille to help vision-impaired children read. Bricks with studs corresponding to braille numbers and letters are available from September this year.

Lego is to sell bricks coded with braille to help blind and partially sighted children learn to read the touch-based alphabet. The Danish toymaker has been providing specialist bricks, tested and developed in partnership with blind organizations worldwide, free of charge to a selection of schools and services catering to vision-impaired children since 2020.

Shoppers can buy packs of the bricks, which have studs corresponding to the braille version of numbers and letters with a printed version of the symbol or letter below, to use at home. Lego hopes the initiative will help parents and siblings share in learning braille, and the packs will include ideas for various educational games that families can play together.

For more information, please visit Lego’s website.