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In 2023, Dra Brea and her colleague Dra. Clara Vaz Bauler wrote a paper about how speech-language pathologists' beliefs (or ideologies) about language can and do influence our definitions, dispositions, and practices within our discipline, and which have direct impact on the clients/ students who seek our services. The Brea-Spahn and Bauler tutorial shows how to center our critical stance, through reflection in dialogue with each other to keep ourselves in check in our journeys of interrogation of our ('biased') beliefs about language. Moreover, they introduced an expansive definition of language - or languaging, an active, dynamic, embodied way of doing language actively. They invited us all to join in a critical reflective stance and in co-building both, dialogic spaces that allowed us to interrogate our beliefs and spaces of imagination where languaging could be centered. If you want to learn more...

We learn about this and get in touch with our own language/ing beliefs in many classes and in conversations in our BLLING collective. And from these conversations evolved the idea of making space for representing the notion of language as a verb through art.

We put together our first museum in 2024 and noticing the healing power of incorporating these ideas in ourselves, practicing the co-building of spaces where languaging could be considered legitimate outside of pre-conceived notions of standards and hierarchies of 'goodness' became part of our mission.