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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.

  1. Describe one of more personal or professional goals that motivated you to apply for this degree. How will completion of the MA in special education (applied behavior analysis) program help you fulfill these goals?
  2. Describe a quality that you believe is critical in working with an individual with special needs and include at least one situation where you have demonstrated this quality.
  3. Describe an individual with special needs and how you supported him or her.
  4. 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 must be formatted as Text (*.txt), Rich Text (*.rtf), Adobe PDF (*.pdf), or Microsoft Word (*.doc, *.docx).
  • File size must be limited to 1MB.
  • 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.

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