Here’s to developing more Latino Spanish-English bilingual scientists! It is critical that we integrate appropriate instructional practices and assessment procedures that consider each of their languages and lived experiences in the classroom. Let’s get to it! 👩🏽‍🔬👨🏾‍🔬⚛️

Study finds that the new Functional Language Proficiency (FLiP) task is an age-appropriate, asset-based, culturally relevant task for measuring functional language proficiency in most Spanish–English school-age bilinguals. https://t.co/uF0jsg9DAf @DrArizmendiSLP @SIGPerspectives

An open-access article + testament to perseverance + the recognition that communities like ours in the Sonoran borderlands are filled with cultural-linguistic wealth that has so often been undervalued/underacknowledged in the professions. ✊🏽 ¡si se puede!

Did you see the NCTM/CEC statement about teaching math to students with disabilities? Well, here's a response to that statement. TLDR? We need actionable recommendations for teaching math that are based on EVIDENCE.

Next month, the Research-Based Approaches for Multicultural Practice (RAMP) Conference will bring together students, professionals, and experts in speech-language pathology focused on serving multilingual and multicultural communities 🧠✨ Register here: https://t.co/n8VltdkqvW

Our latest publication is now available and open-access! ✨ Happy holidays!

Science isn't just for reading. Check out the response of @sarahpowellphd, @EricaLembke, Brad Witzel, and other leaders in math education for students with disabilities to the recent NCTM/CEC position statement on our website.

The authors are taking a break from X, but it’s worth sharing here. “Bilingualism is perceived as a talent for white students and as a deficit for students of color.” #EAL

¡Vengan a Arizona! 🌵 AIMM is now recruiting doctoral students interested gaining expertise in working with multicultural & multilingual children with disabilities. Scholars will be fully funded with the benefit of training & mentorship across two top programs in SLHS!

Part 2 of the story: Opportunity gaps strongly linked with educational attainment and earnings at age 26, particularly for children from low-income households.

#HispanicHeritageMonth Fact of the Day: Latinx children and families benefit from their bilingual and bicultural status. Being bilingual promotes children’s social and #CognitiveDevelopment. https://t.co/EGjnSllb8f

Multilingualism deepens connections and preserves diverse cultures and knowledge. Yet, 40% of the global population lacks education in a language they understand. This #LiteracyDay, support multilingual education for a more inclusive world. https://t.co/QPXAzm2zbr

The Latino Data Hub Action Lab is providing community leaders with essential tools and resources to harness data for informed decision-making, fostering impactful change and strengthening communities across the region.

TT- year two! Time to do something! 🪄🧠

Important insight in @Nature on how helpful mothers from low-income households find various individual and structural parenting interventions to be. Their perspectives are nuanced, vast, and belong at the center of early childhood research. https://t.co/RD9zLlXHAA

$4.4M+ to SLHS @uarizona 🤩 A game-changer for our field and our communities. Proud to be part of a department where we're not just talking about equity, we're actively working to make it happen at every level. And we’re just getting started...✨ #BearDown https://t.co/6JB5yu5SfT

Children with DLD who spoke English as an additional language are about 50% less likely to be identified for services than their monolingual English-speaking peers (Morgan et al., 2017). DLD awareness is needed in bilingual individuals too! @RADLDcam #DLDday

[2] Conversations about data were also conversations about power. Disadvantaged communities have long had to make their struggles legible to those in power – and this is directly related to what knowledge or evidence counts as credible and convincing ‘data’.

As we explain in our forthcoming book -Immigrants commit less crime than other groups -The U.S. border region is one of the safest for US citizens -The border isn't open -Immigrants do not take away jobs but create more -We are not seeing historically unprecedented record numbers

Ya estamos en las etapas finales de colección de datos - se buscan más #fronterizos hispanohablantes ✨We’re entering the final stages of data collection - bilinguals who grew up/live in the #borderlands, this one is for you! Hay participación virtual y recibe $20 por su tiempo.