Lego Braille Bricks come to Australia, helping kids with vision impairment to learn by touch
By national disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella and the Specialist Reporting Team s Celina Edmonds
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FebFebruary 2021 at 6:42pm
Harlen Petersen, five, is excited to be using the Lego Braille Bricks that will now be available to Australian schools.
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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.
Key points:
They are a tool to help children with vision impairment learn maths and literacy
She said her vision for the staff and students of the college was to foster an environment that empowered students to engage authentically in the learning process. She said she understood the importance of being a lifelong learner, holding a Bachelor of Education (Hons) and Master of Education from the University of Southern Queensland, a Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons) from the University of Queensland and was completing a Master of Theology and Leadership at the Broken Bay Institute. In 2021, I encourage the college community to look beyond ourselves and strive to develop a sense of concern for others and a spirit of service, she said.
Early last year Olivia Caves was unemployed.
Twelve months on and she is preparing to attend university following a little help from Carinity Fassifern Community Centre in Boonah.
After completing a work skills course at Carinity Fassifern Community Centre, Olivia Caves is now studying at university.
“Before COVID, I was working as a barista at a local café. I lost work and was unemployed for around three months,” Olivia recalls.
“I found that being out of a routine and not having anything to keep me busy such as work or study really weighed on my mental health. I struggled a lot to keep myself motivated and productive.
The media was again incredibly frustrating at the 4pm covid update yesterday, and in this mornings Herald.
Having Audrey Young doing a grumpy old woman routine asking the same gotcha question a million times ( why are we not told these business now? , and the switcheroo why were this businesses blindsided by releasing their information before informing them? ) was bad enough but her personal annoyance has become the subject of her piece this morning in the paper, where for some vague reason the PM needs to be involved to rev up the MOH over some quibble that Audrey doesn t like.
What is frustrating is ONE WHOLE YEAR after the COVID pandemic began the main media companies are STILL treating the pandemic as primarily a POLITICAL story, using courtier journalists who were excoriated by the public for their addiction to the gotcha dialogue of banter politics and viewing everything through the lens of horse race political analysis. Why was Audrey Young there? Why has the NZ Herald stil