Lego Braille Bricks come to Australia, helping kids with vision impairment to learn by touch

As Harlen Petersen makes his way down a corridor, his white cane stretched out in front of him, he lets out a yell of joy knowing he is about to test-drive some new Lego.

“Let’s play braille Lego,” he cries, and points his cane in the air.

The five-year-old boy is among an excited group of vision-impaired Australian children chosen to trial Lego Braille Bricks for the first time.

The Lego kits each contain 304 bricks featuring letters, numbers, punctuation and symbols in braille, together with the printed version.

Trish Rolland from Vision…