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 ...

When Amit Patel lost his sight because of an illness a decade ago—early in his career as a trauma doctor at an emergency room in the U.K.—he struggled to learn Braille with traditional tools. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, Lego announced plans to unveil customized bricks designed to help children who are blind or visually impaired learn to read Braille. At a time when Braille literacy is declining among ...