Multilingualism and Literacy through a Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Lens
What is BLLING?
The Bilingual Language and Literacy Investigative and Networking Group (BLLING) is a learning community established to foster continued learning about language, literacy, and liberatory practices in speech-language assessment and intervention contexts. Its membership includes faculty and students in several programs in Communicative Sciences and Disorders in the United States, practitioners with CCCs in different contexts of the field, and educational and other related professionals. Membership is voluntary, free of charge, and enables individuals to participate in lectures, workshops, interviews, while engaging in community-building.
What is our mission?
Our three pronged mission include research, teaching, and community engagement. Members meet several times a month with an aim at:
Discussing current topics of interest in the areas of language and literacy with renowned researchers in Communicative Sciences and Disorders and related fields of practice.
Offering spaces of critical engagement on multilingualism to pre-service and in-service teachers, speech-language diagnosticians and interventionists, and other related professionals.
Supporting the community through student-led book drives, family-centered co-learning sessions, and other events centered on language, literacy, and humanizing practices.
