EIEIO Leadership
Robin McWilliam, Director
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For over 35 years, Robin McWilliam has been investigating how best to help young children with disabilities and their families. Through experiences as an early interventionist, a program administrator, a trainer, a researcher, a university professor, and a consultant, he has developed a model for early intervention—the Routines-Based Model, so called because the interventions for children happen in their daily lives (home, classroom, and community routines). The people who are naturally in those routines, such as parents and teachers, are empowered through this model with the skills and confidence to help the children. McWilliam has written over 85 scholarly articles, written or edited 8 books, and made hundreds of presentations around the world. He travels to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, and Taiwan to help with implementation of the model. He is the Executive Director of EI@UA, an early intervention (0-3) program funded through the State of Alabama.
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Cami Stevenson, Associate Director
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Cami Stevenson is an Assistant Administrator at the Multnomah Early Childhood Program in Portland, OR. This program serves children birth through 5 years of age with disabilities. She has followed an implemented the Routines-Based Model for many years. In the EIEIO, she has special responsibility for collecting the many materials the EIEIO has generated, conducting professional development, overseeing the modules, and scoring assignments, including videos for certification. She occasionally stands in for Robin McWilliam, nationally and internationally, in presentations and workshops. She is pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership at Lewis and Clark University.
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European Office
Pau García-Grau
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Pau García is the co-director of the European office of the EIEIO. He is a faculty member at the Catholic University of Valencia. He is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities at The University of Alabama. He has been conducting research in early intervention for 7 years and implementing the Routines-Based Model in a center called I'Alqueria in Valencia, Spain (where he used to be a preschool teacher and an early intervention provider). He received Bachelor's degrees in Education and Physical Education, as well as Master's degrees related to research methodology in physical education (University of Valencia) and intervention for people with intellectual disabilities and their families (Catholic University of Valencia). His doctoral dissertation from the Catholic University of Valencia analyzed family quality of life and quality of professional early intervention practices in Spain. He has made multiple presentations in national and international conferences related to the Routines-Based Model.
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Catalina Morales Murillo
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Catalina Morales is the co-director of the European office of the EIEIO. She is an assistant professor at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. She obtained her Ph.D. in Retos de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanas en la Sociedad del Siglo XXI from the Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir-UCV (Valencia, Spain), her Master's degree in Early Childhood Special Education (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN, USA), and her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Berry College, GA, USA. She has published several articles and book chapters on topics related to early intervention, ECSE, and ECE and has participated as a speaker in national and international conferences (USA, Portugal, Stockholm, China, Spain, Costa Rica). She has served as a coach in RBM trainings and workshops in different countries [Spain (Plena Inclusión Castilla la Mancha, AVAPACE, Sidi Team), USA ( the Collaborative Consultation to Children's Classrooms Certification Institute 2018, EIEIO), Ecuador (Casa Grande University), Paraguay (Teletón Foundation) and Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Chile (Latin American Association for Child Development and Disability and Santa Paula University)]. She was a Graduate Student Research Assistant at the Siskin Center for Child and Family Research Chattanooga, TN, USA, under the supervision of Dr. Robin McWilliam between 2012 and 2014. She was a doctoral Student Research Assistant at Universidad Católica de Valencia, Spain and a Research Intern at the Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities at The University of Alabama and the EIEIO.
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EI@UA
Kimberly Tomeny, Program Director
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EI@UA is an early intervention program, servicng infants and toddlers with special needs and their families, under contract from the State of Alabama. Kimberly Tomeny received her Ph.D. in Special Education from The University of Alabama, with an emphasis in Early Childhood. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Master’s degree in Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Virginia, and she also completed a post-graduate fellowship in Child Development and Early Childhood Education at Yale University. Kimberly's clinical and research experience involves coaching early interventionists, using telehealth in the Part C system (birth-3), and supporting families of infants and toddlers with or at risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She partners with Alabama's Early Intervention System on professional development initiatives related to using the Routines-Based Model via telepractice and creating a sustainable system of care for families of young children with ASD.
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Contact Information
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Robin McWilliam, Director
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities The University of Alabama Email: [email protected] |
Evidence-based International Early Intervention Office
The University of Alabama Box 870232 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0232 |
Affiliates
Our affiliates consist of an external leadership team and University of Alabama faculty members.
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The RAM GroupThe RAM Group has many of the same goals as the EIEIO, focused on work outside the United States.
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Certified Trainers
Many professionals are certified to train others in the RBI. Check out the list of certified trainers in your area!
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