JESSIE ERIKSON, MS Doctoral student Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences University of Arizona PO Box 210071, Tucson, AZ 85721 [email protected]
EDUCATION 2016 – present PhD in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) Minor: Cognitive Science Advisor: Mary Alt, PhD, CCC-SLP
2013 – 2016 MS in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) Thesis: Phonological transfer during word learning: Evidence from bilingual school-age Spanish- English-speaking children (Advisor: Mary Alt, PhD, CCC-SLP)
2008 – 2012 BA in Linguistics, cum laude, University of Oregon, Clark Honors College (Eugene, OR) Honors thesis (passed with distinction): An introduction to verbal nominalizations in the Wapishana language (Advisor: Spike Gildea, PhD)
HONORS AND AWARDS 2017 Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Travel Award ($300) 2017 University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant ($188) 2016, 2017 Galileo Circle Scholar Award ($1000) 2016 ASHA Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award ($750) 2016 Student Travel Award ($700), Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD), Madison, WI 2016 University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant ($750) 2014 Cassandra Davis Scholarship 2012 Centurion Award for community service 2012 Clark Honors College Thesis passed with distinction 2011 - 2012 Endicott Scholarship Since 2011 McNair Scholar 2008 – 2012 Diversity Excellence Scholarship 2009 – 2011 Mary E. Russell Scholarship
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2015 – present L4 Lab, Dr. Mary Alt, PhD, CCC-SLP, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ). Graduate research assistant: Phonological errors produced by monolingual English-speaking and bilingual Spanish- English-speaking children in the context of novel word-learning Parameters for language treatment in late talking toddlers Relations between academic vocabulary knowledge and achievement in 4th grade science for students with and without developmental language disorders
2017 – present Dr. Leah Kapa, PhD, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) Graduate research assistant: Word learning and executive functions in preschool children with developmental language disorders and typical language development
Curriculum Vitae Jessie Erikson • [email protected]
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE, CONTINUED 2013 – 2014 Bilingual Phonology Lab, Leah Fabiano, PhD, CCC-SLP, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ). Graduate research assistant: Phonological patterns of monolingual and bilingual children from high- and low-socioeconomic backgrounds
2013 L4 Lab, Ella Hauwiller and Katrina Nicholas, Dr. Mary Alt, PhD, CCC-SLP. Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ). Graduate research assistant: Data collection at local preschools for research related to acquisition of early-developing prepositions
2011 McNair Scholars Program, Dr. Emily Rine-Butler, PhD, Linguistics, University of Oregon (Eugene, OR). Undergraduate researcher: Microanalysis of how one international teaching assistant closed a dialogic lecture in the classroom and the influence of explicit and implicit instruction
2010 Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang), Dr. Spike Gildea, PhD (Oregon) and Dr. Sérgio Meira (Max Planck Institute). University of Oregon (Eugene, OR). Undergraduate researcher: Data collection and analysis of Wapishana phonology, morphology, and syntax with emphasis on the morphological structure of nominalized verbs
PUBLICATIONS Kapa, L. L., Erikson, J., Plante, E. & Vance, R. (in preparation). Executive function and word learning in preschool- age children with developmental language disorders.
Erikson, J., Alt, M., Gray, S., Green, S., Hogan, T., & Cowan, N. (revisions in review). Phonological vulnerability for school-aged Spanish-English-speaking bilingual children.
PRESENTATIONS Kapa, L. L., Erikson, J., Plante, E. & Vance, R. (2017, June). Executive function and word learning in preschool-age children with SLI. Poster presentation at Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders in Madison, Wisconsin.
Erikson, J., Alt, M., Gray, S., Hogan, T., Green, S., & Cowan, N. (2016, June). Phonological transfer during word learning: Evidence from bilingual school-age Spanish-English-speaking children. Poster presentation at Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders in Madison, Wisconsin.
Erikson, J. (2015, December). Phonological errors of monolingual and bilingual children. Guest lecture for SLHS 340 Language Science at the University of Arizona.
Erikson, J. (2012, February). A Microanalysis of the Language Socialization of One International Teaching Assistant: Closing a Dialogic Lecture in the Classroom. McNair Symposium at the University of Oregon.
Erikson, J. & Rine Butler, E. (2012, March). A Microanalysis of the Language Socialization of One International Teaching Assistant: Closing a Dialogic Lecture in the Classroom. Colloquium presentation at the Annual Conference for the American Association of Applied Linguistics.
TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE 2014 – present Graduate teaching assistant, University of Arizona. Courses: SLHS 261 Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism (Spring 2017), SLHS 340 Language Science (Fall 2014-17), SLHS 367 Phonetics/Speech Science (Spring 2015-16, 2018)
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TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE , CONTINUED 2015 – present Graduate research assistant, University of Arizona. Dept. of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, L4 Lab (Mary Alt, PhD, CCC-SLP). Training and supervision of undergraduate research assistants to assist with 1) transcription, scoring, and data entry for phonological productions of novel word-learning task and 2) stimuli development for novel vocabulary measures
Summer 2017 Graduate teaching assistant (main instructor), University of Arizona. SLHS 340 Language Science (5 days/week for 6 weeks, undergraduate level, Supervisor: Mary Alt, PhD, CCC-SLP)
Fall 2017 Guest lecturer, University of Arizona. SLHS 340 Language Science, Morphology (3 classes, undergraduate level, Instructor: Leah Kapa, PhD)
Fall 2015 Guest lecturer, University of Arizona. SLHS 340 Language Science, “Phonological errors of monolingual and bilingual children” (1 class, undergraduate level, Instructor: Leah Kapa, PhD)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSH IP National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA)
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