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It’d been a while since we’ve taken a photo of the BABEL Lab team! 🫶🏽 The team went all in today and surprised Dr. Arizmendi with the most incredible birthday! It is the greatest gift to be surrounded by such an incredible and dedicated team of scholar scientists! (+5 more not pictured here). Todo se puede en comunidad 🥲🎂💓 #community #communitypowered #communitylove #communitymatters #communitybased

Dismantling health disparities starts with looking at our own systems! 🗣️ We start this April week off with an overview of healthcare disparities, thanks to the incredible work of BABEL Lab undergraduate researcher, @katherine.berntsen 🤩👏🏽 For too long, the burden of systemic failure has been placed on marginalized communities. It is time we shift the lens. As providers and practitioners, it is our responsibility to equip ourselves with the tools to offer truly competent

At Science Night yesterday, the BABEL Lab connected language, learning, and the brain to real pathways! 🧠 ✨ Our stellar team of undergraduate researchers ✨ @marianna.g.martinez @minhcraft_ and @ava.haga ✨ brought the science of bilingualism to life, showing local students in the borderlands how powerful it is to be bilingual and how their language already shapes how they learn, think, and communicate! They also made something clear 👉🏽 these skills are sorely needed in f

As we celebrate International Children’s Books Day, it is important to acknowledge the vast variety of books that support early literacy and learning! 📚 In this case, we are acknowledging the books that make children feel seen through language, culture, emotional, and cognitive development. When we see a connection to our experiences in books, we are more motivated to succeed and actually read! 💡 Every child deserves access to books that highlight the variety of ways humans

ArSHA was a blast! BABEL Lab senior undergraduate researcher, Abby Crandall, shared preliminary findings from her honors thesis on translanguanging in bilingual children’s narrative story retells 🤩 Way to go, Abby! 👏🏽 So great to see all the great research happening in the department @arizonaslhs and across the state of Arizona! 🌵🫶🏽 #beardown #arsha #slpeeps #undergraduateresearch #bilinguismo

Hooray 🥳 Today, two of our first year undergraduate research assistants @minhcraft_ and @marianna.g.martinez had the wonderful opportunity to share information about language facilitation to high school parent-students in our community! ✨ Minh Thu and Marianna shared their language stories and the importance of protecting our home languages. Of course bilingualism is an incredible asset! It doesn’t cause confusion, delays, or disabilities and the parent-students we connect

To one of the most successful PUENTE days yet! 🥳 Hope is blooming everywhere, especially in the Sonoran borderlands where many new students are interested in becoming SLHS majors to become speech-language pathology and audiology professionals! 🌻🗣️🪅 #slpeeps #bilingualslp #slp2be #bilinguallearning #bilingualjobs

To an amazing first CEC! ✨ Dr. Arsenault and I got to start the conference off with unpacking how we can better support our teachers and families with bilingually developing students that experience mathematics difficulties. From our time together at UT Austin to CEC now as assistant professors, so many ideas to launch! Stay tuned for forthcoming research and collaborations with @ tessaarsenault.phd 🤩 It was exciting to see so many practitioners eager to learn how they can

Dr. Arizmendi will be presenting at the Council for Exceptional Children Convention this week in Salt Lake City! ✨ At #CEC2026 , we’re highlighting the realities and needs that our school practitioners, students, and families report across the nation. From supporting bilingual children with mathematics difficulties with @ tessaarsenault.phd to providing teachers with a toolbox on bilingual language development, each is shaped by a shared goal 👉🏽 to make education more incl