Schoodles: Fine Motor & Keyboarding

Schoodles looks at the fine motor skills a student actually needs to get through a school day, and at the underlying abilities that support them. It is qualitative rather than normed — the point is to work out where a child is struggling and what to do about it, not to produce a standard score.

Over thirty skills are assessed across three groupings. Classroom skills cover handwriting, coloring, drawing, cutting, and design copying. Supporting skills cover the foundations underneath: manual muscle testing, proprioception, eye-hand coordination, finger coordination, crossing midline, motor planning, bilateral coordination, core strength, and vision. Play skills cover stacking, nesting, puzzles, pegboards, bead stringing, and block design. The therapist chooses which components to administer.

Licensing Notes: Sold as a physical kit or a digital membership with lifetime access, but requires a level A Qualification — no special credential required to purchase. The forms and workbook pages are reproducible, which is the intended use, but the materials themselves are copyrighted.

Learn More: The keyboarding half is the distinguishing feature and is often overlooked. It breaks keyboarding into access, fine motor development, gross motor development, and skill with the keyboard, and — most usefully — allows a direct comparison of speed and efficiency of written output by keyboard versus by hand. That comparison is exactly the evidence needed to justify an assistive technology recommendation.