22/11/2017
Go Figure! Visual Figure Ground: what it is & how Ezi Lace Ups™ can help!
If I were to ask you to find ferns among the green plants you might find it difficult. First you’d have to know what a fern looked like, then you’d have to spot it among the similar coloured plants.
If I were to ask you to find the red rose among the green plants, you’d spot it faster even if you didn’t know what a rose was, you would look for something different – something that stands out!
If you were to ask your child to find the sauce bottle in the fridge or pantry, find their socks in busy drawer of items, find Wally in ‘Where’s Wally’ as a few examples, they might find that difficult too. Again first they have to know what they’re looking for, then they have to spot it in the clutter. The difficulty may have to do with visual ‘figure Ground’, or difficulty seeing the object that they are looking for from the stuff in the background.
Figure ground difficulties are one thing with an object, but figure ground difficulties while trying to learn shoe lace tying, a process, takes it to another level. That’s because you can’t find an ‘object’, there’s no object to look for as explained in my previous post! It's hard enough trying to learn something new, but when you can't 'see' what you're looking for, it makes the learning process tricky & frustrating!
That’s where ezi lace ups™ with their tri-colour design, make it easy to see each part of the shoe lace tying process.
So at each stage, it’s always easy to see the step being taught without it becoming lost in the background, even though shoe lace tying is a process & not an object! Frustration is replaced with a boost of confidence:)
With the design’s labelling feature, ezi lace ups™ also cater for aspects of colour blindness as well!
In effect Ezi lace ups™ eliminate another difficulty of learning shoe lace tying – they solve the visual figure ground issue.
