Katie Christiansen, Ph.D.
Dr. Christiansen is PICCOLO researcher and site coordinator for the Early Head Start (EHS) research and evaluation project in the Department of Family, Consumer, & Human Development at Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University. Dr. Christiansen has worked on several projects as a home visitor trainer. She has extensive experience in child assessment, video observation, preschool evaluation, and teacher evaluation.
She is particularly interested in children's language development and reading acquisition. She worked as an assessor examining reading scores of Native American children. She used early PICCOLO data to study parenting interactions in a Spanish-speaking population in relation to child development.