• Ages: 3 & Up
• Administration Time: 30-45 minutes
• Criterion-referenced
• Schoodles Fine Motor & Keyboarding Assessment Complete Kit includes: Manual, reproducible forms, Goal-writing Chart, reproducible workbook. (2024)
• Qualification Level: A

The Schoodles School Fine Motor Assessment (Schoodles) is a qualitative, criterion-referenced assessment of over 30 skills essential to skilled fine motor work. Skills are assessed according to age levels of attainment and quality of performance, allowing for an individualized approach to each student's specific challenges. The Schoodles can be used as a stand-alone tool to determine the need for intervention, track progress, or in conjunction with standardized testing for students ages 3+ and older. Assessment components are chosen by the therapist based on needs identified by the student's teachers.

Assessed skills are categorized into Classroom Skills and Supporting Skills, those skills needed to support fine motor outcomes.

Classroom skills include:

• Design copy
• Handwriting
• Coloring
• Cutting
• Puzzle construction

Supporting skills include:

• Manual muscle testing
• Proprioception
• Gross motor coordination
• Eye-hand coordination
• Finger coordination
• Crossing midline
• Motor planning
• Bilateral coordination
• Trunk strength
• Vision skills

The recently updated Schoodles Keyboarding Assessment breaks down the functional skill of keyboarding into component areas. These include access, fine motor skill development, gross motor skill development, and skill with the keyboard. Through the assessment, the efficiency and speed of written outcomes using keyboarding and handwriting can be compared.

Observations made from the Schoodles assessments are analyzed to determine if there are need areas that can be addressed by an occupational therapist. Goals can be easily written from the information gained from the assessments using the goal writing guide. The assessment process takes about 30-45 minutes to complete.

COMPLETE Schoodles KIT INCLUDES: Manual, reproducible forms, Goal-writing Chart, reproducible workbook. (©2024)