Early Learning and Communication Specialist

Rick McKinnon, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Posted Sun, 2006-10-29 22:05 by Rick

Early Learning and Communication Specialist

Current position: eLearning Support Manager
South Puget Sound Community College
Olympia, WA 98512

Curriculum Vitae

    Education

    • Ph.D., Linguistics, 1995, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Title of Dissertation: Electrophysiological Investigations of Morphological Phenomena. Chair of Dissertation Committee: Dr. Lee Osterhout.
    • M.A., Speech and Language Pathology, 2000, Department of Communication Disorders, University of Massachusetts, MA.
    • B.A., Liberal Studies, 1986, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.

    Publications

    • McKinnon, R. Talking with Toddlers: A Handbook for Parents of Children with Communication Delay. (on line)
    • McKinnon, R., Allen, M., and Osterhout, L. (2003). Morphological decomposition involving non-productive morphemes: ERP evidence. NeuroReport, 14 (6), 883-886.
    • Osterhout, L., Bersick, M., and McKinnon, R. (1997). Brain potentials elicited by words: Word length and frequency predict the latency of an early negativity. Biological Psychology, 46, 143-168.
    • McKinnon, R. and Osterhout, L. (1996). Event-related potentials and sentence processing: Evidence for the status of constraints on movement phenomena. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11(5), 495-523.
    • Osterhout, L., McKinnon, R. Bersick, M., and Corey, V. (1996.) On the language-specificity of the brain response to syntactic anomalies: Is the syntactic positive shift a member of the P300 family? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8 (6), 507-526.
    • McKinnon, R. (1992). Data and the generative enterprise. Department of Linguistics Working Papers. University of Washington.

    Clinical Experience

    • Group Health Cooperative, Olympia, WA (2005-present):
      • Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist
    • A Step Ahead in Pierce County, Tacoma, WA (2002-2005):
      • Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist
      • Consultant to EI and Early Head Start Educators
    • Holly Ridge Center, Bremerton, WA (2000-2002):
      • Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist
      • Preschool Classroom Consultant
      • Family Resources Coordinator
    • Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA (1999):
      • Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist Intern
    • Mercy Hospital, Springfield, MA (1998):
      • Adult Speech-Language Pathologist Intern

    Mediation Experience

    • Special Education Mediator for the State of Washington (2006-Present)
      Sound Options Group
      Bainbridge Island, Washington
    • Senior Mediator (2005 - present)
      • Thurston County Dispute Resolution Center
      Olympia, Washington

    Teaching Experience

    • The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, Adjunct Professor, (2000-present):
      • Human Development
      • Introduction to Linguistics
      • Language Acquisition
      • Psycholinguistics
      • Interviewing and Assessment
      • Language and Species
    • Elms College, Chicopee, MA, Assistant Professor, (1998-2000):
      • Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders
      • Introduction to Linguistics
      • Phonetics and Phonology
      • Normal Language Development
      • Seminar on Instrumentation in Phonetics
      • Counseling Skills for Clinicians in Communication Disorders
    • University of Massachusetts, Adjunct Professor, Amherst, MA (2000):
      • Speech Science
    • International Language Institute, Northampton, MA (1997-1998):
      • ESL Instructor
    • The Institute for Training and Development, Amherst, MA (1997-98):
      • ESL Instructor/ Adult Education Consultant
    • Pierce County Community College, Tacoma, WA (1995):
      • ESL Instructor
    • The University of Washington, Graduate Teaching Asst., Seattle, WA (1992-94):
      • Language and Culture
      • Introduction to Linguistic Inquiry
    • St. Martin's College, Olympia, WA (1992-93):
      • ESL Instructor
    • E.F. Language School, Olympia, WA (1991-92):
      • ESL Instructor

    Research Experience

    • Keith Rayner's Eyetracking Lab, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (95-97): Post-doctoral Trainee in Psychology of Reading.
    • Lee Osterhout's ERP Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (92-95): Graduate Research Assistant.
    • David Swinney's Cross-modal Lexical Priming Lab, CUNY, NY, NY (89-92): Graduate Research Assistant.

    Administrative Experience

    • 1999-2000 Member of the Affirmative Action Committee, Elms College.
    • 1993-1994 Vice-president of Graduate Linguistics Students Association, University of Washington.
    • 1988-1990 Member of the Executive Committee, Department of Linguistics, City University of New York Graduate School.
    • 1988-1990 Member of the Board of Directors of the Research Foundation of the City University of New York.
    • 1988-1990 Member of the Doctoral Students Council of the City University of New York Graduate School.


    Grants and Collaborations

    • "From Speech to Script", Federal Weed-and-Seed grant allocated through the City of Lakewood, WA, awarded to ASAP in 2003. Focus on improving readiness for reading in 3-5 year-old population through increasing expressive language skills.
    • National Early Reading First Grant, US Dept. of Education, awarded to Puget Sound E.S.D. in 2003. Consultant to E.S.D. on issues concerning participants with communication delay.


    Colloquia and Presentations

    • "Talking with Toddlers: How to make a difference in the development of a young child with expressive language delay." Training to Puget Sound ESD Early Head Start Staff, (2/04), Tacoma, WA.
    • "How to enrich the language environment of children in a childcare environment." Presentation to Bates College STARS program, (6/03), Tacoma, WA.
    • "Syntax, semantics and the modularity hypothesis." Poster presentation with Kathy Binder, Sandy Pollatsek, Keith Rayner and Chris Chase. Annual Meeting of the Society of Cognitive Neuroscience (3/97), Boston, MA.
    • "Morphological decomposition in lexical processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials." Colloquium presentation to Linguistics Department (9/95), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
    • "ERPs and lexical morphology: Evidence for decomposition." Poster presentation with Lee Osterhout. Annual Meeting of the Society of Cognitive Neuroscience (3/95), San Francisco, CA.
    • "Morphological parsing and ERPs." Poster presentation with Lee Osterhout. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (3/94), New York, NY.
    • "Word Class and ERPs" Poster presentation with Lee Osterhout, and Michael Bersick given to Psychonomic Society (10/94)
    • "Phrase structure parsing and the ECP: Evidence from ERPs." Poster presentation with Lee Osterhout. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (3/93), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
    • "Phrase structure parsing and rule precompilation." Poster presentation with Janet Fodor and Lee Osterhout. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (3/92), New York, NY.
    • "Empty categories: A tool for comparing grammars." Colloquium presentation to Department of Linguistics (4/91), University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
    • "Empty categories in sentence processing: A question of visibility." Colloquium presentation with Janet Fodor. Department of Linguistics (9/90), City University of New York.


    Community Service

    • Dispute Resolution Center Volunteer (Thurston & Kitsap Counties, WA)
    • Chicken Soup Brigade Volunteer (Seattle, WA)
    • Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America (Hampshire Co., MA)
    • Adult Literacy Instructor (Orange, MA)
    • STARs Trainer for Community Childcare Centers (Pierce & Kitsap Counties, WA)


    Professional Associations

    • Linguistic Society of America
    • Cognitive Neuroscience Society
    • American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association