about my job - ABA therapist

Last post was about my dream to this big city and now I shall blog about my current job which is a therapist who works with children with special needs. Working with children is really out of my expectation or what I have always wanted to as before going in to this field, I HATE children a lotsss. I feel like slapping them, making them cry, teasing them, and so, and so... Everything changed after my internship where I started to feel that I can do more to help them and also their families. For your record, I interned at EAP - Early Autism Project Malaysia Sdn Bhd - It's a place where parents find hope for the children with autism disorder. 

Working with children do need patience, passionate, big love, and positive attitude. Sometimes the child is smart enough to test whether you are a patience person or not by throwing tantrums and not compliant to you. I am doing a 3 hours therapeutic session on 1-to-1 basis with the child. It means that you have to be fun and smart enough to keep the child happy and engaged to you. Creative is part of that too where you have to instantly think of what is fun and how to make the session more effectively as the parents have spent lots of money on their precious children, hoping that this program could change their life to a better one.

I have worked with a few children in this field. Most of them are adorable and smart in their ways. They will use all sort of actions to get your attention when you are not attend to them. The other characteristic of children is that they will easily get jealous/envy when you are playing with the other kid and not attend to them. They want to feel lovable all the time. Sometimes, I was thinking what I have learned from the program is helpful for me being a parent in future or not. Certainly, I will over-pamper my children and fulfill every single wishlist of theirs. I think every parent will have the same thought as mine. =)

That's the reinforcer that i used to keep the children happy and motivated