Team Members

Juliann Woods, PhD, CCC-SLP
Founder, Director Emerita – Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center
Juliann Woods 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
Program Coordinator – Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center
Katrina Cripe is the FGRBI project manager and the program coordinator for the Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice (CEC-RAP) Center in the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University. Katrina’s research interests include 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.

Mollie Romano, PhD, CCC-SLP
Director – Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center
Mollie Romano 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.