Katie Herron, PhD is the Director of the Early Childhood Center (ECC) at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University. Dr. Herron has a background in Clinical Psychology and completed her PhD in a program that emphasized research. Her focus shifted to disability and early intervention during graduate school when her son was born with a disability. Since then, she has worked within Indiana’s early intervention system in multiple roles and has also trained families to become effective advocates. For the past decade at the ECC her focus has been on improving the quality of early intervention and early education systems using evidence-based family-centered practices, including the promotion of high-quality family engagement, the promotion of high family expectations for young children with disabilities and the importance of infant/early childhood mental health.

Kayla O’Neill has been working in birth to 3 early intervention since 2010 in North Dakota, Minnesota, and currently in Indiana. O'Neill is a Research Assistant with the Early Childhood Center at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, Bloomington.

O'Neill holds a Bachelor's degree in Special Education with an emphasis in Early Childhood Special Education and Developmental Disabilities from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a Master's degree in Education with a focus on English as New Language Learners from Augustana University.