FirstPaint vs OT Screener

A simple to use, young learner's touch painting and coloring app from Sensory App House. FirstPaint contains no adverts and does not require a login or subscription. Sensory First Paint contains 4 groups of coloring templates, with 25 paintings to be completed, plus a blank canvas to paint freehand on. The paintings could also help with early word use and starting letter sound exploration. FirstPaint starts in fill mode, and you can change to freehand mode by pressing the top icon. There are two simple painting modes - freehand and tap to fill - and they can be combined to fill in your freehand paintings. You can also create a fun animation effect once the painting is completed. Pressing the Back arrow chooses the blank canvas, and each of the 4 modes of difficulty features a smaller brush. Switch Access and Adaptive XBox Controller: FirstPaint is an ideal first digital painting app, that can also be used with an XBox Controller or Microsoft Adaptive Controller with a joystick, the DPAD, inbuilt switch or suitable external switch. The joystick moves the onscreen cursor, A button selects/deselects painting and settings. FirstPaint is one of a series of Sensory painting and art apps, including Mandala, FunPainting and Coloco.

The OT Screener is a pre-referral screening tool for a students visual-motor integration skills (copying) and fine motor grasp (pencil grasp). It can be used by teachers and therapists to quickly screen their students to determine if they have met pre-writing developmental milestones, and is ideal for students in Pre-K through second grade. Information obtained from the OT Screener can be used to implement targeted pre-referral intervention for students, and may be used by teachers to determine curricular decisions. Each milestone has a dedicated page that identifies criteria for mastery. Additionally, intervention strategies are listed to help guide teachers and therapists when selecting activities to assist students in learning a particular skill. Links to printable resources are also available, and include data keeping sheets, in addition to screening forms for students to write on. *New in version 2.0.1 and later: Handwriting screener added, which utilizes OCR technology to quickly scan and analyze a student's handwriting and then provides quick analysis legibility scores to help measure a student's progress and identify potential handwriting intervention needs. The OT Screener is compatible with iOS 17 and later. The OT Screener in NOT a substitute for a standardized, validated, and norm referenced assessment tools of visual-motor integration and fine motor grasping skills. Information within this screening tool is based on available data and expert agreed upon developmental milestones for visual-motor integration and fine motor grasping skills. This tool should not be used to determine a student's offer of free and appropriate public education.