Responses to short answer questions provide the admission committee with information regarding your personal or professional goals and how they align with the MA in special education (Applied Behavior Analysis) program. The admission committee pays particular attention to the quality of writing and ideas expressed in these responses as well as evaluating the relevance of goals to the aims of the program.
Please respond to three of the four questions below. Responses should be limited to 150-200 words per question.
Describe a quality that you BE believe with an individual with special needs and include at least one situation where you have demonstrated this quality.
Briefly discuss why you are interested in pursuing a graduate degree at this time. What steps have you taken (or will you take) to ensure that you will be successful in this program?
File name must be limited to 50 or fewer characters.
Requirements: Medium
just for you to know I am actually an occupational therapist I have two years of experience working with children with diagnosis, something you can add to the statement and it can be beneficial!
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Pursuing a graduate program this time is strategic because my chosen profession requires a constant discovery of techniques to improve the special needs field. Worth noting, this is an era with significant changes influenced by technological advances and widened perceptions about health, learning, and lifestyle, among others. Therefore, I have a knowledge thirst of keeping with the trend to help me better comprehend human behavior in the special needs field. I envision applying evidence-based practices based on the applied behavior analysis when handling children, adults, and communities. This will help me enhance people’s proper functioning, performance and reduce problematic behaviors through personalized intervention plans. Hence, to ensure that I will be successful in this program, my first step is to keep track of my studies by demonstrating a commitment to completing the assigned tasks and projects. Secondly, I will collaborate with my instructors and ask for guidance on challenging areas in my studies. Most importantly, I will develop a study plan which will help me manage my personal life and school work to achieve commendable grades. Overall, I am confident that my efforts
