Team Members

Juliann Woods, PhD, CCC-SLP
Founder, Director Emerita – Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center
Juliann is a professor emerita at Florida State University and the founder and director emerita of the Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice (CEC-RAP) Center. Her research interests include professional development, coaching, caregiver-implemented intervention, autism, communication development routines based intervention, and technology used for intervention.

Katrina Cripe, BA
Coordinator – Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center
Katrina is the CEC-RAP Center Coordinator and the project manager and technology coordinator for multiple state-funded contracts. Katrina’s interests include exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of developing and technology-based internal coaching program to train early intervention providers to coach team members in Family Guided Routines Based Intervention (FGRBI), as well as how to use a video observation platform to develop and sustain fidelity and reliability of EI providers and coaches implementing the FGRBI coaching model or fidelity measure across state agencies.

Mollie Romano, PhD, CCC-SLP
Director – Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center
Mollie is the Director of the Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice (CEC-RAP) Center at the Florida State University. Mollie is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders with experience with Family Guided Routines Based Intervention as an EI provider serving children, families, and childcare centers in Florida. Mollie’s research interests include professional development for EI providers in home and center-based settings, supporting the language environments of young children at risk due to poverty, and early communication development in children with significant disabilities.