Today’s post is written by Ben Sarcia, Director of Verbal Beginning’s Healthy Beginnings program If your child eats only a very small range of foods—or refuses entire food groups—you may have heard the term ARFID, or Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. ARFID is used to describe extreme food selectivity or food refusal that goes…
At Verbal Beginnings, growth often starts with a single step—and few journeys capture that better than Danitra Etheridge’s. Joining the organization in 2017 as an in-home RBT, Danitra is now Clinical Director of the Frederick Center where she continues to shape the experiences of clients, families, and emerging clinicians alike. In this interview, Danitra reflects…
The Verbal Beginnings team recently had the joy of attending the Maryland Association for Behavior Analysis (MABA) conference — and we didn’t just attend, we showed up. As a Premier Level Sponsor, Verbal Beginnings was proud to support an event that brings together behavior analysts, students, researchers, and practitioners who are all committed to advancing…