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 experience the...

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 connected with today had...