Building Blocks Therapy is an early intervention therapy agency serving families in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Perry, and York counties.

Our work is about one thing above all else – the individual development of your child. Building Blocks Therapy carefully screens and interviews therapists to ensure that they meet our high professional standards.

Our therapists regularly participate in advanced training sessions and continuing education classes to ensure that they are always up-to-date with fresh ideas and sound teaching principles.

We're proud of our staff members and all that they do. This is who we are:

Our Team

Megan Lesko, MA CCC-SLP

Owner / Speech-Language Pathologist

megan@bbtherapy.com

Megan has been working with families in early intervention since 2006. Prior to that, she worked at the Capital Area Intermediate Unit (CAIU) with 3-5 year olds in preschool, head start, and itinerant settings. While at the CAIU, Megan designed a fluency training program for parents of children with dysfluent speech. Before working at the CAIU, Megan was the speech therapist on the brain injury unit of HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Mechanicsburg.

Megan's favorite therapy toy is the Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Piggy Bank.

Specialties

Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech & Hearing Association

Hanen certified in "It Takes Two to Talk" and "Late Talkers" parent training programs

Continuing education focus on motor speech disorders and childhood language disorders

Angee Rockwell, BA

Special Instuctor

angee@bbtherapy.com

Angee is a Special Instructor at Building Blocks Therapy with 13 years of experience working with families in Early Intervention. She specializes in evaluations, allowing her to meet new families and assist them as they enter the program.

Angee received a Bachelor of Science from Charleston Southern University. Over the years, Angee has focused on child development from birth to 3 years of age. She enjoys meeting and interacting with a variety of babies and toddlers.

Angee regularly participates in continuing education related to a range of topics including Autism, late talkers, social/emotional development in toddlers.

Beverly Kambic, MA CCC-SLP

Speech Therapist

beverly@bbtherapy.com

Beverly has been working at Building Blocks since 2019. She loves working with children aged birth to three alongside their family and caregivers. Beverly has worked as a speech-language pathologist in both local public and special education schools. She has evaluated and treated students aged preschool through 21 with a variety of communication needs, including articulation, expressive and receptive language, reading, stuttering, and social skills. Beverly is passionate about helping children communicate their wants and needs across all settings with all listeners and speakers.

Beverly earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communication Science and Disorders and her Master of Arts in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Pittsburgh. She is certified by the American Speech/Language Hearing Association (ASHA). She is licensed by the State Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and holds a Level 1 teaching certificate by the State of Pennsylvania. Beverly regularly participates in continuing education related to a range of topics, including birth to three treatment, articulation treatment, reading development, and expressive and receptive language treatment.

Cara Glynn, MS OTR/L

Occupational Therapist

cara@bbtherapy.com

Cara Glynn is a licensed Occupational Therapist. She completed her education at Elizabethtown College in the accelerated Masters of Occupational Therapy program. Throughout her schooling, Cara worked as a childcare provider in the childcare and home setting. While at Elizabethtown, Cara took special interest in pediatrics, and completed graduate electives, as well as fieldwork rotations in the early intervention setting. After this, she realized that she enjoys many aspects of early intervention, especially meeting families and spending time with them to create strategies in order for their children to learn, grow and find success. Cara loves learning, being creative and finding effective, up to date treatment strategies. She has experience working with children with sensory processing difficulties, children with Autism, as well as children demonstrating feeding difficulties.

Her favorite therapy toys are bubbles, finger-paint and play dough!

Emily Robertson, MS CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

emily@bbtherapy.com

Emily began her career as a speech therapist in Lynchburg, VA in 2009, working at a pediatric therapy center, working with the birth through 21 year-old population. Additionally, she worked with the birth through 3 year-old population in Early Intervention. In 2012, she moved to York, PA and continued to work with the pediatric population at Leg Up Farm. She has now transitioned back to serving the birth to 3 year-old population, working for Building Blocks Therapy.

Emily earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Gettysburg College in 2004. She then decided to pursue Speech therapy and earned her Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Towson University in 2009. She has a current certification from The American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA). She also is certified in the Beckman Oral Motor Protocol and is trained in Neurodevelopmental Treatment.

Her favorite therapy toys are the Play and Learn Piggy Bank, various wind- up toys and books.

Heidi McDonald, BS

Special Instructor

heidi@bbtherapy.com

Heidi joined the Building Blocks Therapy team in October 2022. She received her Bachelor of Science in Education from Millersville University, with a dual degree in both Early Childhood and Elementary Education. She continues to enhance her knowledge and gain ideas for her students through various workshops and trainings.

Heidi has always worked in the training and teaching arena and has extensive experience in working with children. She worked as a substitute and floater teacher, as well as a preschool and kindergarten teacher. Heidi also worked in the childcare industry and because of her successful communication skills and her professional creative approach, she additionally holds a “trainer position” and trains other early childhood professionals to work with students aged 3 months to Kindergarten.

Heidi raised 2 successful children and is very involved in her community. She loves to ski, bike, garden and travel. She holds her Professional Ski Instructor Certification and is also a Certified Child Specialist-10 yrs. Heidi believes early childhood education is invaluable because it improves a child’s cognitive, social, and emotional development. Her goal is to make ongoing connections with her students and families in order to foster a positive learning environment. Heidi loves to use bubbles, books, songs and finger plays!

Jennifer Price, PT DPT

Physical Therapist

jennifer@bbtherapy.com

Jennifer began her career in physical therapy in 2007 working with children of all ages at the Hershey Medical Center, both in the hospital as well as the pediatric rehabilitation center. A majority of her time was spent with children with brain injury, as well as oncology and the home ventilation program for infants/children going home on ventilators. She then moved to an outpatient setting at Leg Up Farm, where she is also currently working part time.

Jennifer received her Bachelor's degree in Health Science and her Doctorate degree in Physical Therapy from Lebanon Valley College.

While it is really hard to narrow it down to a few, Jennifer's favorite therapy toys are the little people farm and the neurosmith music blocks as both toys can be used in a variety of ways. She also really likes the Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn activity table.Here you can add a short description.

Jessica Dishler, MS OTR/L

Occupational Therapist

jessica@bbtherapy.com

Jessica has enjoyed working with children and their families over the years in a number of different settings including school, clinic and home-based services. She was previously working in early intervention and home-based services for children up to 18 years of age in Arizona before returning to her home state of Pennsylvania.

She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and her Master’s in Occupational Therapy from Colorado State University. During school she was involved in a number of research projects and worked as a teacher in a daycare setting.

Jessica has a strong background in sensory-based interventions and feeding techniques for texture issues and picky eaters. She enjoys the unique role occupational therapists have helping families in early intervention. Her favorite activities to do with children are Playdoh and shaving cream because the kids usually love it and the parents enjoy not having to clean it up!

Teresa Jones, MS CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

teresa@bbtherapy.com

Teresa joined the Building Blocks Therapy, LLC team in August 2011. She had been working with children aged 3-5 years old at the Capital Area Intermediate Unit (CAIU) since 2001, in a variety of preschool and daycare settings. Therapy has focused on a variety of communication needs: articulation, receptive and expressive language, fluency and social/pragmatic language needs, particularly with children on the Autism Spectrum. She loves helping her students improve their specific communication needs so that they may improve the quality of their social relationships with adults and peers and feel the success of increased communication. Previously, Teresa had worked with elementary through high school aged children in a variety of school districts, before having her own children and then making the switch to Early Intervention.

She received her Masters of Science in Speech Pathology at Bloomsburg University of PA and her Bachelor of Science in Speech Pathology and Audiology at Indiana University of PA. Teresa attends continuing education seminars/workshops on an ongoing basis, to enhance therapy focus and ideas for her students.

Teresa doesn’t have a favorite toy to use in therapy with children, but does feel as though creative, manipulative play allows for lots of opportunities for language use. Peers and adults can model new vocabulary and expanded utterances as they engage in interactions. Coloring and painting activities, playing with playdough and helping to cook/bake provide experiences full of new vocabulary and many chances to model actions and language. The tools for these activities may many times already be in families’ homes.

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