Personal Statement Of Purpose: A Career As A Speech Assistant

Good interpersonal skills are vital for communication. Interpersonal skills not only include good spoken communication, but also non-verbal communication. Speech therapist are often one of the few people in the patient’s environment who serve as good role models for communication. Success in the field of speech therapy is rooted in

Combined with it’s broad spectrum of academic and practicum experiences, I believe James Madison University will aid in reaching my maximum potential as a Speech Pathologist. In addition to the academic and practicum experience, the graduate program’s focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder has sparked my interest. My critical thinking and teaching skills were refined when teaching appropriate skills and behaviors for maximum involvement and success in the community with the Autism Society of North Carolina. My skills and experience working with autistic clients and their multidisciplinary team to provide best therapy opportunities would be beneficial towards my success in the CSD 528 Autism course offered at James Madison University. I would love to advance my research skills, in Dr. Longerbeam’s research project on the impact of sensory integration intervention on vocal/verbal output of children with

Originally, I was drawn to speech pathology after my sister’s diagnosis of Autism at the age of three. Watching Diane struggle with language development and acquisition while other children seemed to grasp these skills naturally is what initially sparked my interest in helping families like my own. At the start of my junior year, I set out to obtain experiences working with different populations. Toward the latter half of junior year, I became involved as a clerical volunteer at the Sacramento Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center. By senior year, I was balancing a full course load alongside three volunteer experiences. In addition to Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center, I divided my time between tutoring at a neighboring elementary school in the Twin Rivers School District and serving as an intern at the Autism Center for Excellence (ACE). During my undergraduate experience, I welcomed the opportunity to work with students that struggled with literacy, language, and pragmatic skills. After graduation, it was my goal to obtain additional experience in the field as a speech-language pathology assistant.

Thank you for your considering my application to the Applied Behavior analysis program. For all of my life I have known that I was going to help people. It could be said that it is in my DNA. I just never suspected what the capacity would be. On December 15thI graduated from Albright college, I began working at Melmark on December 16th. My first thought, on that first day was “Oh no, I can’t do this, I need to quit” That was over two years ago, and I have gone to work every day, with a smile on my face. While working at my first position, out of college, I discovered my passion. My passion, I find, is working with children and adults with autism and with people who suffer from addiction. Watching the smiles on their faces, the determination when they work to complete a goal, and just the progress makes every hardship worth it, I love it. Each day, in my position as an ABA, I run behavior support plans, IEPs, teaching plans and other protocols, and each day I truly wish that I could have contributed to these plans, protocols, and IEPs. I ponder the recommendations that I could come up with, I wonder that if I had been able to participate in these conversations to create these plans could I have brought something else to the table, a different viewpoint. Affecting the way that the plans are written and in turn ran, I feel that I could make a big difference in the lives of the children and their families also. Every two weeks each child’s team meets to discuss his or her

I have taken on the role of behavioral interventionist on a case, for a six-month term, where my responsibilities consisted of providing individualized therapy treatment to children with difficulties in communication, repetitive behavior, social interactions and problems with behavior. In addition, I also provided parents with skills training to reinforce knowledge of what was implemented throughout the six-month progress. Further, as part of the parent skills training, I provided positive feedback to ensure parents were learning the proper skills needed to communicate effectively with their child using the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). On the other hand, I plan to continue volunteering at the Autism Clinic at (UTRGV) to gain more clinical experience and also in search of helping more families. On a personal level, I have seen my loved ones’ struggle with dual diagnosis and it has motivated me to learn more in order to help other individuals with

While I am learning an abundance of valuable information at Clarke, my background knowledge derived from my undergraduate studies. I double majored in Speech Pathology and Psychology at Brooklyn College because I believe they compliment each other well when it comes to the studies of speech. Different aspects of Psychology including cognitive science, neuroscience, and biology are essential in understanding speech disorders, language processing, production, acquisition, and comprehension. In my second year at Brooklyn College, I observed children at a nearby elementary school for 50 hours. During this time I observed how children at the kindergarten level interacted with each other. I shadowed the teacher in order to learn different teaching strategies that will be beneficial and applicable as a Speech Therapist.

In an effort to accomplish my primary career goal of becoming a medical laboratory technician, I will need to ensure I communicate clearly both in writing and verbally. All aspects of life require communicating and interacting with other people either verbally, nonverbally, or in writing; however, in a professional work setting it is most important. Regardless the field of expertise, poor communication could be imperative to one’s career. For example, in a business setting, lack of communication could result in merchandises not being ordered; in a medical setting, a patient could die. No matter where one goes in life, the ability to successfully communicate with others is tremendously important.

All of my psychology degree has led me to this point-from talking about different careers in Psych 101, to learning about child psychopathology, to discovering behavior modification, to meeting my boss at an internship fair, to receiving and accepting a job offer at Utah Behavior Services, and to love it so much that I’ve decided to start my career in this work. The BYU psychology program has helped me see the benefits of ABA, as well as learn about the struggles of children and their families when they receive an autism diagnosis. I’m grateful for BYU, for the psychology program, and for this internship class that has helped me feel even more comfortable in pursuing a career in ABA therapy as a

I am highly interested in the Registered Nurse opening in Medical Surgical Unit now available at Reading Health System. I will be graduating in July 2016, and taking the NCLEX August 2nd, 2016. The values of compassion and innovation in your mission statement and dedication to educating health care professionals resonate with me.

After completing my graduate training I plan to continue researching these areas while performing neuropsychological assessments in order to help families and educators identify appropriate programs for the child. The experiences I have accumulated and my passion for the field have allowed me to develop into a highly suitable candidate for the program and I am very excited to get started working on these core areas of autism

Over the past four years since John started school in Australia his level of English has improved a lot; especially his receptive use of the language. John is a talented language student and is achieving great results in both additional languages he is studying at the moment, English and Japanese. Due to his cultural background John does not volunteer to speak freely during class. This makes it hard for his teacher to find the degree of depth of his understanding of new concepts learned in class. However, he is a passionate language learner and his focus is to perfect his knowledge in both additional languages.

Pedagogues play highly important roles in the fostering of speech and language for young children, particularly for those who may have a disability in this area of processing and cognition. Teachers actually serve a multitude of purposes in this respect. They act as models of proper language and speech, helping children to see and listen to how people talk and how the children themselves should one day speak. They also serve as coaches, and utilize a variety of methods to coax understanding of language and of speech from children themselves. Additionally, they function as facilitators who provide a variety of different mechanisms and means to initiate understanding in children, both of what it is the child wants and a comprehension of what the teachers expect for the children to do as a result.

During my early childhood and partial middle childhood, teachers and students in school were having trouble understanding me due to my accent. My parents are from Freetown, Sierra Leone in west Africa not too far from Liberia. My parents moved from Sierra Leone in the mid 1908s and gave birth to me in the early 1990s, through my infancy I was raised with less English communication and more of our cultural language. Granted, I was born in the U.S, my communication development was structed due to cultural beliefs causing difficulty communicating with others in the same age range and have met their developmental milestones. Throughout my early childhood stage I would find difficulty pronouncing particular words, reading out load, understanding others, completing work, asking for help and advocating for myself, which untimely diminished my social competence and interpersonal skills with classmates. Due to my lack of productivity and improvement the teacher noticed my difficulty in my achieving academic and social milestones, she requested to place me in ESOL (English for speakers of other languages). ESOL is a program where English is a foreign language that is used for non-native English speakers learning English in country where English is not commonly spoken. “Little kids are like sponges” is an expression that anyone working in early childhood education has likely heard at one time or another. While the saying can refer to children’s general aptitude for learning, when considered in relation to language learning, it reflects the common belief that young child simply “soak up” language. The corollary to this is that learning languages gets harder as one gets older, so that it is best to start young. (Bernstein,

The reason I am the way I am today is due to cultural and personal factors. Cultural and personal factors include where I have been raised, how I was raised, and what I personally have experienced. Growing up, my grandfather was a preacher and I was raised as a Baptist. In middle school, I had a chance to explore other denominations such as Pentecostal. Everyone that I grew up with went to the same church except me. I got permission from my parents to start going to a Pentecostal church with my friends and I went to a Pentecostal church until I was in the eighth grade. After the eighth grade, I started going back to a Baptist church and haven’t looked back ever since. I am thankful that my parents gave me a chance to explore a different

For the purpose of this assignment I chose Feruza, an Eritrean high school graduate. She was born and raised in Eritrea and came to live in Jeddah only five years ago. She studied English in an elementary school in Eritrea and continued studying it in an Eritrean International High School. She is not happy at all with what she has learnt during those years. She explained that during her elementary school years her teachers heavily focused on writing while neglecting speaking. When she continued her learning process here in Jeddah, her high school teachers focused only on speaking but not at the level she was expecting.