Projects

Begin Date End Date Title
08-06-2025 06-30-2026 Building Capacity to Practice Family Guided Routines Based Intervention (FGRBI) in Early Intervention
07-01-2025 06-30-2026 Early Steps: Train the Trainer 2025-2026
07-01-2021 06-30-2026 Initial Efficacy Trial of Florida Embedded Practices and Intervention with Caregivers
04-04-2022 03-31-2026 Early Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Intervention Delivered via Hybrid Telehealth
12-01-2021 03-31-2026 First Steps Unified Training System
10-01-2024 09-30-2025 Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Tuition Support Program
02-26-2024 08-25-2025 TORSH and Technical Support to Sustain and Scale Implementation of FGRBI
07-01-2024 06-30-2025 Early Steps: Train the Trainer
10-01-2023 09-30-2024 FL DOE ESE Tuition Support Project
07-01-2023 06-30-2024 Year 2: Early Steps: Train the Trainer
12-01-2017 12-31-2023 IA DMM Building Capacity And Sustainability In FGRBI
10-01-2022 09-30-2023 Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Tuition Support Program
07-01-2022 06-30-2023 Early Steps: Train the Trainer
10-01-2021 09-30-2022 Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Tuition Support Program
07-01-2020 07-31-2022 Family Guided Routines Based Intervention in the State of Pennsylvania
07-29-2019 06-30-2022 Early Steps: Train the Trainer
10-01-2020 09-30-2021 Florida Department of Education Exceptional Student Education Tuition Support Program
08-01-2018 07-31-2021 The Impact of Internal Coaching on Providers\' Use of FGRBI in Part C Early Intervention
10-01-2019 09-30-2020 ESE Tuition Support Program
01-01-2013 12-31-2019 Personnel Preparation In Special Education, Early Intervention, And Related Services
10-01-2018 09-30-2019 SLP Tuition Support
12-01-2017 06-30-2018 TORSH Talent Technology
04-01-2013 11-30-2017 Iowa Early Access Distance Mentoring Model

Network

Romano, Donna -- INACTIVE EXPERT
Office Administrator
Family & Child Sciences
Woods, Juliann -- INACTIVE EXPERT
Professor
Communication Disorders

Research Terms

Research Terms
Behavioral Sciences
Behavioral Sciences > Psychology > Developmental Psychology
Behavioral Sciences > Psychology > Developmental Psychology > Communication Development

Centers

Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center
University: Florida State University
Director: Mollie Romano
Address: 409 Warren
201 West Bloxham
FSU
Tallahasee, FL 323206
Phone: (850) 602-2291
URL: http://cec-rap.fsu.edu
Type: Center or Institute – University (BOG numbered)
Mission:

The Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center (CEC-RAP) is designed to promote interdisciplinary contributions to the field of early intervention/education for young children with disabilities, communication disorders, and/or dual language learning needs. CEC-RAP focuses on the continued expansion of research, personnel preparation, and service delivery through collaboration with interrelated projects.

Research Descriptors: Communication Development
Early Childhood Education
English As A Second Language
Handicapped Children and Youth

Publications

Recent Publications:

"A low-cost, social media-supported intervention for caregivers to enhance toddlers’ language learning: A mixed methods feasibility and acceptability study (Preprint)"

2025 ▪ JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting

Mollie Romano,Diana Abarca,Frances Baehman


"Getting to the Point: Examining Associations Between Adult Interactional Strategies and Infant Gestures"

2024 ▪ Infancy

Mollie Romano,Blair P. Lloyd,Kelsey Lucca,Johanna Eugenio


"Social Communication and Parent Verbal Responsiveness Across Interaction Contexts in Toddlers on the Autism Spectrum"

2024 ▪ American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Abigail Delehanty,Ciera M. Lorio,Mollie Romano,Jennifer A. Brown,Juliann J. Woods,Amy M. Wetherby


"Examining the Family-Centeredness of Speech-Language Pathologists Working With Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication"

2024 ▪ American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Elizabeth E. Biggs,Michelle C. S. Therrien,Diana Abarca,Mollie Romano,Andrea Barton-Hulsey,Sara C. Collins


"Augmentative and Alternative Communication Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contextual Determinants of the Parent–Speech-Language Pathologist Partnership"

2023 ▪ American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Andrea Barton-Hulsey,Sara C. Collins,Michelle C. S. Therrien,Elizabeth E. Biggs,Mollie Romano,Brianna Coltellino


"174 Development of an Individualized Responsive Feeding Coaching Intervention"

2023 ▪ Journal of Clinical and Translational Science

Jessica Bahorski,Mollie Romano,Julie May McDougal,Edie Kiratzis,Insu Paek


"Latin American Mothers’ First-Hand Accounts of a Statewide Early Intervention Model: A Funds of Knowledge Approach"

2023 ▪ Topics in Early Childhood Special Education

Diana L. Abarca,Mollie Romano,Estrella Rodriguez


"Development of an Individualized Responsive Feeding Intervention—Learning Early Infant Feeding Cues: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Study"

2022 ▪ JMIR Research Protocols

Jessica Bahorski,Mollie Romano,Julie May McDougal,Edie Kiratzis,Kinsey Pocchio,Insu Paek


"The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers"

2022 ▪ Early Childhood Education Journal

Mollie Romano,Katherine Perez,Diana Abarca


"Augmentative and alternative communication services during the COVID-19 pandemic: impact on children, their families and service providers"

2022 ▪ Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Michelle C. S. Therrien,Elizabeth E. Biggs,Andrea Barton-Hulsey,Sara C. Collins,Mollie Romano


"Supporting Caregiver Coaching in Telepractice Through Web-Based Professional Development"

2022 ▪ Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups

Anne L. Larson,Mollie Romano,Christina Meyers,Johanna Eugenio,Sue T. Olsen


"Family Routines Within Caregiver-Implemented Early Interventions: A Scoping Review"

2022 ▪ Journal of Early Intervention

Mollie Romano,Ciera Lorio,Abigail Delehanty,Johanna Eugenio,Diana Abarca,Bhairvi Trivedi,Jennifer A. Brown


"State of the Practice of Team Science in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology"

2021 ▪ Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

Carla Wood,Mollie Romano,Yulia A. Levites Strekalova,Victor A. Lugo,Wayne T. McCormack


"Team science in CSD (Wood et al., 2021)"

2021 ▪

Carla Wood,Mollie Romano,Yulia A. Levites Strekalova,Victor A. Lugo,Wayne T. McCormack


"Using Peer Coaches as Community-Based Competency Drivers in Part C Early Intervention"

2021 ▪ Topics in Early Childhood Special Education

Mollie Romano,Melissa Schnurr,Erin Elizabeth Barton,Juliann Woods,Cindy Weigel


"A Systematic Review of Parent–Child Shared Book Reading Interventions for Infants and Toddlers"

2021 ▪ Topics in Early Childhood Special Education

Ciera M. Lorio,Abigail D. Delehanty,Mollie K. Romano


"Coaching childcare providers (Romano et al., 2021)"

2021 ▪

Mollie Romano,Johanna Eugenio,Edie Kiratzis


"Coaching Childcare Providers to Support Toddlers' Gesture Use With Children Experiencing Early Childhood Poverty"

2021 ▪ Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools

Mollie Romano,Johanna Eugenio,Edie Kiratzis


"Mind the Gap: Strategies to Bridge the Research-to-Practice Divide in Early Intervention Caregiver Coaching Practices"

2020 ▪ Topics in Early Childhood Special Education

Mollie Romano,Melissa Schnurr


"A Review of Problem Solving and Reflection as Caregiver Coaching Strategies in Early Intervention"

2019 ▪ Infants & Young Children

Ciera M. Lorio,Mollie Romano,Juliann J. Woods,Jennifer Brown


"Rates of Prelinguistic Communication and Early Symbol Use in Young Children With Down Syndrome: Using a Progress-Monitoring Tool to Model Growth"

2019 ▪ American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Mollie Romano,Ann Kaiser,Julie Lounds-Taylor,Juliann Woods


"Language interventions taught to caregivers in homes and classrooms: A review of intervention and implementation fidelity"

2019 ▪ Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Christa Haring Biel,Jay Buzhardt,Jennifer A. Brown,Mollie K. Romano,Ciera M. Lorio,Kelly S. Windsor,Louise A. Kaczmarek,Rachel Gwin,Susan S. Sandall,Howard Goldstein


"Increasing deictic gesture use to support the language development of toddlers from high poverty backgrounds"

2019 ▪ Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Mollie K. Romano,Kelly S. Windsor


"Caregiver and Provider Experiences With Coaching and Embedded Intervention"

2017 ▪ Topics in Early Childhood Special Education

Christine Salisbury,Juliann Woods,Patricia Snyder,Kierstin Moddelmog,Helena Mawdsley,Mollie Romano,Kelly Windsor


"Collaborative Coaching With Early Head Start Teachers Using Responsive Communication Strategies"

2017 ▪ Topics in Early Childhood Special Education

Mollie Romano,Juliann Woods


Contact

Name: Mollie Kathleen Romano  
Title: Asoc Professor
University: Florida State University
College/School: College Of Comm & Inform
Home Department: School Of Information Oddl
Address: 201 W BLOXHAM ST
TALLAHASSEE, FL
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