{"id":2945,"date":"2020-08-24T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T18:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br.alluring-pink-stork.72-61-35-14.cpanel.site\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2020-08-24T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T18:34:28","slug":"lego-launches-braille-bricks-for-visually-impaired-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/lego-lanca-pecas-em-braile-para-criancas-com-deficiencia-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego launches braille bricks for visually impaired children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, the 20th, the toy manufacturer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/exame.com\/noticias-sobre\/lego\/\"><strong>Lego<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0officially launches the Lego Braille Bricks collection, with pieces that allow reading in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/exame.com\/noticias-sobre\/pessoas-com-deficiencia\/\"><strong>Braille<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>in six languages: Danish, Norwegian, English, Portuguese, German, and French, with the ambition for the concept to be implemented in 11 languages across 20 countries by early 2021, with Brazil already participating in the first launch phase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Braille Bricks collection, the Lego Foundation has created a completely new and engaging way for visually impaired children to learn to read and write,\u201d said David Clarke, Director of Services at the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which worked with the Lego Foundation to develop and test the bricks in the UK.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-content\">The Lego Braille Bricks parts kit comes with a pedagogical concept based on learning through play and includes suggestions for activities based on the bricks. The kit is also available on the foundation's website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to launch the first wave of the Lego Braille Bricks program and put the toolkits into children's hands,\u201d says Stine Storm, senior play and health specialist at the Lego Foundation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-content\"><\/div>\n<p>Each kit will contain over 300 Lego Braille pieces covering the complete alphabet in the chosen language, numbers from zero to 9, and selected mathematical symbols and punctuation marks. It will be available in five Lego colors and will also include three base plates and a brick separator.<\/p>\n<p>As the kits are released in each country, they will also be distributed free of charge to selected institutions, schools, and services focused on the education of visually impaired children.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"row article-end\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<section class=\"article-tags\">SOURCE:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/exame.com\/marketing\/lego-lanca-pecas-em-braile-para-criancas-com-deficiencia-visual\/\">Exam<\/a><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nesta quinta-feira, 20, a fabricante de brinquedos\u00a0Lego\u00a0lan\u00e7a oficialmente a cole\u00e7\u00e3o Lego Braille Bricks, com pe\u00e7as que permitem a leitura em\u00a0braile\u00a0em seis idiomas: dinamarqu\u00eas, noruegu\u00eas, ingl\u00eas, portugu\u00eas, alem\u00e3o e franc\u00eas, com a ambi\u00e7\u00e3o de que o conceito seja implementado em 11 idiomas de 20 pa\u00edses at\u00e9 o in\u00edcio de 2021, sendo o Brasil j\u00e1 participante da [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canal-reatech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reatechbrasil.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}