Do you know the saying, “More than the sum of its parts”?
Sometimes, that’s absolutely true.
Richard Bruse is a instructor in vocational rehabilitation for visually impaired and blind people at the SFZ Förderzentrum gGmbH, Sehzentrum Berlin.
The 30-year-old, who is visually impaired himself, doesn’t just use adapted, 3D-printed learning games in his lessons—he also applies simple modifications and clever combinations that turn out to be surprisingly effective.
Thank you, Richard, for this wonderful little example of how well simple modding can work!
Describtion
In this project I covered a Lego Braille learning game with Penfriend labels and named each individual brick. The Lego Braille learning game was made available to the SFZ Förderzentrum gGmbH, Sehzentrum Berlin by the DZB (Deutsches Zentrum für barrierefreies Lesen). The Penfriend is a tool for labeling everyday things such as spices for cooking or medical remedies. The pen-like device allows you to save a specific recording to the included labels on the Penfreind and attach them to the respective item. When the data is read later, the Penfriend plays this recognized recording. This type of exploration of deutsche Blindenvollschrift (braille in Germany) is very well received in my lessons, as the remembered dot image can be directly and independently confirmed auditorily.
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