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Like every other class, you first class should be an icebreaker. A number of activities could be designed which give students a flavor of what they’d be learning the entire sem or year whatever applies.You can take two examples of a business letter and ask them to comprehend/analyze/interpret things. A checklist/rubric could be provided and students could be asked to mark the pieces accoringly with some parameters. They can comment on the ethical concerns, 7 Cs, preciseness, accuracy, formal tone etc.You can also make two teams and ask each to propose a business plan. One team could also write a reply and whichever uses the correct language (according to what principles you gotta teach them in future) wins.

I lost custody of my then 3-year-old autistic boy, also non-verbal and PDD, into the clutches of DYFS in NJ around 30 years ago.Why?Good question. I don’t know why. Well, they claimed that he was not really autistic, that his symptoms were from “emotional neglect”. There was no real abuse, the boy was well treated and fed, and I had a good career as a software engineer.I took it upon myself to learn more about autism and neuroscience in general. I quickly discovered that no one even knew what autism was at the time. No clue what caused it, no clue how to define it, and there appeared to be a broad spectrum of mental disorders that was lump in under the rubric of “autism”.He was the child of the lady I married, borne of a prior relationship. I counted this boy as my own flesh and blood, just because it was the right thing to do.18 long months and battles in court and we finally got him back. He was neglected by the system, big time. Foster parents really don’t care for the kids in their care, for the most part, and they definitely did not want to go the extra mile to deal with my son’s special needs. Simply could not be bothered.Being that exposed to the system — the social workers, the court system, the judges — taught me a lot about just how broken that entire system is, and how dangerous it can be. And I weep for the kids that wind up in that system, who in many cases are abused in their foster homes.Shooting Jack in order to “save” Jill.I could go on at length about this, even write a book on it.Some tell me that CPS actually does some “good” sometimes. Well, I too can win at the Roulette table occasionally.I was very vocal about what happened, and actually launched the Save Your Children organization. I actually ran into those that created the Save The Children organization, and we had a chuckle about how similar our names were.Many parents who have been through similar with CPS contacted me, and I posted many of their stories on the now-defunct s y c . o r g site (I had to space out the letters to prevent Quora from looking it up!!!). You can still find it on the WayBackMachine / Internet Archive.Even after we got our boy back, our troubles were far from over. It was as though the “entire world” wanted to give us hell for having an autistic child, as though dealing with him from day to day was not stressful enough. All of this transpired in the US, which appears to be busy-body central. Oh, if people can simply mind their own business, things would’ve been much easier.The phrase, “no good deed goes unpunished” now has special meaning to me. And you can bet your bottom dollar that I will never get involved with handicapped children ever again.I no longer live in the US. I left over 6 years ago. And I have no interests in returning. Ever. Especially in light of what’s going on now. It has gotten far worse, where people are being beaten up or even killed for their political beliefs, let alone the riots and arson and looting that’s being allowed to happen in many cities. Pure, unadulterated chaos. Makes no sense.But I digress.Perhaps CPS would be better if it only focus its efforts on real child abuse, and there are some real nasties out there. But they do not. They miss some barn doors here as well. Let alone the abuse that takes place in foster care. Let alone the painful fact that CPS sometimes actually looses track of kids.But even someone in Psychology 101 would know about autism, that it is real, and the crazy dynamics between the autistic and the parents. It is not the kid’s fault; neither is it the parent’s. Normal kids signal for their parents’ attention and affection that naturally engenders that response. Autistic kids simply do not, nor do they respond to the affection when given it. This is not “emotional abuse”. Just the way it is with autism. Now, there will always be some exceptions to this rule, but understanding just that bit can save a lot of frayed nerves and avoid traumatizing the child.As if kids mattered. The truth of the matter? Governments cannot substitute for good solid loving parents. Period.

There is no single common process for every university. It just depends.For example, some schools have extremely strict GPA and standardized tests scores bar. If you don’t meet them, they’ll probably not even look at your resume/SOP.Some colleges feel that once you have cleared the GPA/GRE score bar, they should spend time reading your application. Very often, if you have mentioned some particular prof’s name in your SOP, chances are that that professor will review your application. Since profs are busy people, they do ending up forwarding this task to their TAs. Rare, but possible.In a league of its own, the new trend is using Machine Learning. Previous years’ data set is used as the training data set, and the new applicants are evaluated against them. The features range from GPA, GRE/TOEFL scores, to occurence of certain words like “top 5%” in your LoR and resume. A subset of the total number of applications received is selected and then reviewed manually.All the best!