Pixelated Scribbles

I burnt my chips!! And my fish fingers too~ I’ll just have to salvage whatever is left of it – which should be enough for now.

*4 hours later*

So I have been rather engrossed (read: with systematic and consistent diversions of e-mailing, eating, blog hopping, IM-ing, and talking) with the research for one of my assignments. The topic is on the empirical validation of early behaviour intervention for autism. All this reading is making me want to become a certified behaviour analyst. Serius! Do you have any idea what ABA (and positive behavior support – PBS) could do to Brunei? To the people of Brunei at least. We could provide proper training for parents and practitioners on people with pervasive developmental disorder (e.g. autism, asperger’s syndrome), physical limitations, depression and the likes of them. We could design interventions to target the increase of productivity at the workplace, or to target disruptive behaviours in schools/classrooms. We could improve the health, saftey and maybe even religious practices in Brunei. The possibilities are just ENDLESS! (If you were to see me actually talk about this in front of you, I betcha you’d be “overwhelmed” with my enthusiasm!)

Back on the ‘becoming certified’ aspect. If and/or when I complete this MSc, that would mean that I have fulfilled HALF of the requirements of becoming a behaviour analyst. Now, the 2nd half is the tricky (very tricky, it appears) part. I would actually need to find a place to practice BA, AND find a supervisor (who’s a certified BAst). There aren’t that many certified BAst in UK, but there are more in the US. The supervision costs quite a lot of money too. Another hurdle in becoming certified is the Ministry of Education and the scholarship. Would they allow me to even go down this road? Would they help me pay for the supervision, cost of living and etc? So yes, getting certified isn’t easy.

Anyway. That was just me daydreaming By the time I’m done with the MSc, I might decide to do something else. I might even get tired of studying and wish not to continue *shrug* Who knows? I’m just going to get the 1st term out of the way first, and will re-think about this whole thing again next year.