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12/12/2025

💌 Holiday cards are a wonderful way to share joy and work on many language & motor skills. Working on fine motor skill to cut, snip, tear, or fold paper. They colored & drew, pasted, and added embellishments like stickers, tissue paper, and washi tape. Finally, we wrote in the cards with joyful greetings.

📬 At home: make cards for family and friends. Work on the cards together! Feel free to use pre-cut shapes or trace shapes if drawing isn’t your best skill. Build skills while having fun and talk about who will get the card and how much joy it will bring them. Think about what to say and why the greeting will work. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just made with love.

💌 Already sent holiday cards? Local nursing facilities love homemade cards for their residents who may be alone at the holidays.

12/05/2025

Good evening. Despite the FCPS 2 hour delay tomorrow, we will be operating as normal. If you have any questions/concerns, please reach out to your child's therapist and appointments@skillbuildersllc.com. We look forward to seeing everyone as usual tomorrow.

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from our Skill Builders family to yours! 🦃🍂

11/25/2025

Proud to grow, learn, and advocate together! 📝

Last week, our SLPs attended the 2025 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in Washington, DC. They enjoyed learning from leading professionals in the field and connecting with colleagues and former professors.

We’re especially proud of our very own Ms. Amy and LJ for presenting on AAC User Perspective and Communicative Competence.

What a wonderful experience for our team!

11/19/2025

📱 Speech therapists help older teens and adults build strong texting and digital communication skills. Ms. Chrissy is helping one client practice initiating and maintaining conversations, interpreting tone and emojis, advocating and responding appropriate in social and safety situations, and understanding texting boundaries.

🏡 At home, parents can support this in the following ways:
• Practice texting with your child and talk through messages in real-time together.
• Encourage self-advocacy. Practice how to text for help, clarify plans, or communicate needs.
• Role-play texting scenarios. Pretend to be a friend or coworker and take turns texting back and forth. Discuss what made the messages clear or confusing.
• Discuss tone. Look at how a text could sound different depending on punctuation, capitalization, or emojis.
• Model clear, respectful, and safe texting habits.

11/18/2025

If you are caring for an adult child with a disability and feeling torn between caring for them at home on your own or placing them in a traditional group-home setting, there may be a more personalized option for your family.

Lisa Escoto, a Skill Builders mom and CEO of Family-Run Individual Group Homes of Virginia, is offering a FREE 30-minute phone consultation to discuss the options.

Visit www.familyRIGH.com or email info@FamilyRIGH.com to learn more or schedule a consultation with Lisa.

11/15/2025

Good morning. Unfortunately our patient portal has been down since yesterday evening and therefore document access and payments are not possible at this time. We do apologize for any inconvenience and will update when it is back up. Have a great weekend all!

11/14/2025

🎨 Ms. Gabby and her client did marshmallow painting to explore messy tactile, visual, and olfactory inputs. They used their “science brains” to describe the paint in safe terms, such as “sticky” or “sweet.” One goal of messy play can be to expand one’s acceptance of various tastes, smells, textures, etc.

🎨 At home, you can also make marshmallow paint! Microwave marshmallows and add in oil, food coloring, spices, and extracts. Use a paint brush or fingers to paint a picture.

11/07/2025

Join us virtually on Monday, November 17th (7:30pm) for Sensible Sensory Solutions, led by OTs Jamie Hampton & Gabby Mazzeo.

🔗 Link in comments

11/04/2025

🍂 Ms. Chelsea and her client read a fall-themed book to target the following language goals:
* Describing using senses (hear rustling leaves, see colorful leaves, feel crunchy leaves, smell crisp air, taste caramel apples)
* Using adjectives (silly squirrel, fluffy tail)
* Answering wh- questions (Who? what? where?)
* Inferencing, perspective-taking, and identifying emotions (How does the squirrel feel?)

🏡 At home, families can participate in activities and bring the story to life by taking a walk, going on a leaf hunt, jumping in leaf piles, raking leaves, or making a sensory bin with leaves, acorns, beans, dried pasta, etc.

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween from Skill Builders! 🎃🕷️👻

10/28/2025

🫧 Jamie C. shared a fun sensory activity using water, food coloring, dish soap, a silly straw, and paper!

🫧 They are working on self-regulation via deep breathing (breathing in through the nose and slowly out through a thin straw), breath control to make sure their mouth is not on the straw while breathing in, executive functioning to gather the materials and plan their bubble art stamp on the paper.

🫧 “How to” at home: blowing air through straws or blowing bubbles are great ways to provide a fun alternative for teaching breath control and modeling self-regulation! The bubbles provide kids with a visual as well, which can be a calming visual input.

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7617 Little River Tpke. , Suite 310
Annandale, VA
22003

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Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm

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+17039417757

Website

http://www.skillbuildersllc.com/

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