NSU Horizons Fall 2017

19 NSU HORIZONS Sitting on the other side of a two-way mirror, Cindy Verlaan watched her four-year-old son, Jonathan, eat peas being fed to him by Roseanne Lesack, Ph.D., BCBA-D, ABPP, who directs the Unicorn Children’s Foundation Feeding Disorders Clinic at NSU’s Mailman Segal Center for Human Development. Jonathan, who is diagnosed with autism, lost 8 percent of his body weight within a month after refusing foods he once ate. Doctors were prepared to place him on a feeding tube. That is, until Verlaan heard Lesack speak about NSU’s Feeding Disorders Clinic. “I thought, I desperately need to get him into this clinic for at least an evaluation,” said Verlaan, who drove from her central Palm Beach County BY CAROL BRZOZOWSKI Roseanne Lesack shows children, such as this two-year-old, new flavors and textures at the Feeding Disorders Clinic. Food Thought for