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Sheila O'Brien Quinn, Ph.D.
Phone: 401.341.3104
e-mail:sheila.quinn@salve.edu
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Dr. Quinn has a B.A. from Providence College, a M.Ed. from Temple University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island. She teaches our courses in Abnormal Psychology, Learning and Behavior and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). In addition to her years of teaching experience, Dr. Quinn brings a rich background of experience in community settings where psychological principles are applied directly to the amelioration of human problems. She has been a Special Education Advocate for the state of Rhode Island; a Research Associate with the Spina Bifada Association; a School Psychologist in the Connecticut Public Schools (1986-1998); and a Special Education Teacher for the Trudeau Center in Warwick, RI. She is also past
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president of the New England Psychological Association, on the Eastern Region Steering Committee for Psi Chi the National Honor Society in Psychology, and a member of the editorial board of PsycCritiques, the American Psychological Association's book review publication.
Currently, Dr. Quinn is the Principle Investigator on an Idea Network Biomedical Research Excellence (IN-BRE) grant funded thorough the National Institute of Health. She and three SRU psychology majors are comparing various ABA techniques in terms their relative effectiveness in developing social awareness in children with autism. |
This page
is not an official page of Salve Regina University. It was created--and
is still maintained-- for the Department of
Psychology by Anthony A. Walsh
to be a part of a larger web site devoted to psychology and other matters that he
first put on line in January, 1996. These
redesigned pages went on line November 5th, 1999.
Revised: June 13, 2009
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