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Building hand skills for children

Hand training and assessment, built for kids

The problem

Children's hand skills are declining.

77%TeachersReport declining hand skillA decline in pupils' fine motor skills, since 2020YouGov, UK, 2025 →
5.7xChildrenNeed adult transcriptionTo write out their handwriting, since 2019, KS2DfE data via Tes, UK, 2024 →
37%ChildrenLack basic independenceFor school readiness. Up from 33% in 2024KS School Readiness, UK, 2025 →

Why it matters

Hand skills predict more than handwriting.

01School successHand skills at five predict reading and maths outcomes years later.
02Thinking abilityA brain fighting the pen has less room for the sentence.
03Life skillsHand skills are linked to language, play and social confidence.
04IndependenceDressing, eating and washing all begin in the hands.

Our solution

SqueezAble

SqueezAble: A hand training and assessment tool, built for kids

A tool that can...

01

Measure hand skills objectively.

Fine motor skills, bimanual gross motor skills and handwriting, scored against real, normative benchmarks.

02

Assess a child in five minutes.

A hand assessment takes five minutes per child, and can be run wherever suits the setting.

03

Get kids training willingly.

Interactive activities that keep them engaged and coming back, plus homework you can set and review.

04

Keep everyone in the loop.

Progress over time in a single view, shared across educators, parents and therapists.

05

Fit the systems you use.

Integrates with the platforms your setting already uses to track progress. No new workflow.

06

Lift academic outcomes.

Evidence shows training hand skills improves academic output.

Every skill a child develops gets a measure.
Reading has a level, maths has an age.
Hand skill has none. Until now.

HOW WE DO IT

Smart silicone sensors

Innovative, multi-movement sensing in child-safe silicone, taking thousands of readings per second.

01STANDALONE Device

A soft silicone shape children squeeze, stretch, bend and twist, with in-built games.

Two SqueezAble devices, one lit red lying down and one lit blue standing upright
02Connectable App

Hand exercises, assessments and games that turn movements into data.

Three phones showing the app: a stretch-strength instruction, a DexScore results screen with left and right hand scores, and a pinch-strength instruction
03Platform

Where educators, parents and therapists see the results.

A laptop showing a child's Dexterity Score page, with left and right hand percentile charts against a reference range, next to a SqueezAble device

Our partners

Developed with world-class research and engineering

Imperial College London's South Kensington campus at dusk, the Queen's Tower lit above the lit-up buildings

Train the hands,
train the brain

Evidence shows that training hand skills can improve academic output.