Ben Sarcia joined Verbal Beginnings as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2015. He has served as the Clinical Director of the Healthy Beginnings Behavioral Feeding Program since the program’s inception in 2016. Ben began his experience with the treatment of pediatric feeding disorders at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Autism Resource Center as a graduate student. After completing a master’s degree in clinical psychology, Ben went on to work as a behavior analyst in the Feeding Disorders Continuum at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD. In this role, Ben served both day treatment and inpatient admissions as part of an interdisciplinary team, while participating in research with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Ben is a member of the International Association for Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing. He is also pursuing a Ph D. in behavior analysis at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and his dissertation focuses on a strategy to reduce tantrum behavior that can occur when feeding therapy commences.