AlejandroGranados Vargas, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Faculty Profile

Vargas, A. G., Perez, C., & Yu, B. (2024). Assessing Narrative Performance Using a Translanguaging Perspective in Bilingual Children. EBP Briefs. Volume 16, Issue 5. EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs). 

Granados Vargas, A., Peña, E. D., & Bedore, L. M. (2024). Bilingual Children Demonstrate Variation Within Shared Narrative Macrostructure. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(11), 4504-4517. 

Bedore, L. M., Peña, E. D., Shivabasappa, P., Perez, C., Vargas, A. G., Leachman, M., & Wang, J. (2024). An exploration of the nature of vocabulary change following Language and Literacy Together intervention. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 33(2), 611-626. 

Peña, E. D., Bedore, L. M., & Vargas, A. G. (2023). Exploring assumptions of the bilingual delay in children with and without developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(12), 4739-4755. 

Granados Vargas, A. (2026, March). Literacy Practices of Latinx Immigrant Families of Disabled Bilingual Children. ​​ [Conference session]. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. Chicago, IL, United States. 

Granados Vargas, A. (2025, November). Systematic Concept Analysis of “Home Literacy Environment” in ASHA Journals. ​​ [Conference session]. American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention. Washington, DC, United States. 

Catt, N., Ly, S., Granados Vargas, A., Perez, C. (2025, October). Charlando y Imaginando con Terapeutas del Habla y Lenguaje: Partnering with Speech-Language Therapists to Support Language Equity in Racialized, Multilingual Communities. ​​ [Conference session]. California Library Association Annual Conference. Riverside, CA, United States. 

Granados Vargas, A. (2025, June). Storytelling Practices of Latinx Bilingual Children Labeled as Disabled. ​​ [Conference session]. The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain. 

Granados Vargas, A. (2025, June). Translanguaging Landscapes in the Elementary School Classroom. ​​ [Conference session]. The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain. 

Fuentes Acevedo, P., Acosta, I., Granados Vargas, A., Kimmerling, C., Santagata, R. (2025, April). Translanguaging to Co-Design with Parents and Teachers Towards Transformational Change in Mathematics Learning. ​​ [Roundtable]. 2025 American Education Research Association Conference. Denver, CO, United States. 

Granados Vargas, A. (2025, March). Translanguaging Landscapes in the Elementary School Classroom. ​​ [Conference session]. 2025 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. Denver, CO, United States. 

Perez, C., Granados Vargas, A., Ly, S., Catt, N., & Peña, E. D., Lam, J., Velasco, J., Moss Vazquez, T. (2025, March). Charlando y Imaginando con Bibliotecaries: Partnering with Public Librarians to Re-imagine Language Futures in Racialized, Multilingual Communities. ​​ [Conference session]. 2025 California Speech and Hearing Association (CSHA) Convergence. Pasadena, CA, United States. 

Perez, C., Lam, J. H. Y., Granados Vargas, A., (2024, December). Community Engaged Partnerships: Discussions on Bilingualism and Re-imagined Language Futures in Spanish- and Chinese-speaking Communities [Conference Presentation]. ASHA Convention, Seattle, WA, United States. 

Granados Vargas, A., Perez, C. (2024, December). Translanguaging in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences: Elevating the Visibility of Minoritized Language Practices [Conference Presentation]. ASHA Convention, Seattle, WA, United States. 

Granados Vargas, A., Perez, C., Evenich. A. (2024, October). Translanguaging to Visibilize the Erasure of Disabled and Pathologized Latinx Languaging Practices [Conference Presentation]. Cultural Humility Virtual Conference of the National Black Association for Speech-Language, and Hearing, virtual.  

Granados Vargas, A., Peña, E., Bedore., L. (2024, July). Bilingual Children Demonstrate Variation Within Shared Narrative Macrostructure [Poster Presentation]. 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Prague, Czech Republic.  

Granados Vargas, A., Perez, C. (2024, June). Assessing Narrative Performance Using a Translanguaging Perspective in Bilingual Children [Conference Presentation]. Heritage Language Research Institute, Irvine, CA, United States.  

Granados Vargas, A., Perez, C. (2024, April). Translanguaging: Historical Erasure of Latinx Language & Communication [Conference Presentation]. Latinx Studies Association Conference, Tempe, AZ, United States.  

Perez, C., Granados Vargas, A. (2024, March). Charlas: Community Engaged Partnerships Discussions on Bilingualism and Reimagined Language Futures [Poster Presentation, Featured Presentation]. California Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convergence, San Francisco, CA, United States. 

Granados Vargas, A. (2023, November). Bilingual Children Demonstrate Association Between Age and Internal State Term Use in Narratives [Poster Presentation, Meritorious Poster Submission]. ASHA Convention, Boston, MA, United States. 

Granados Vargas, A. (2023, June). Bilingual Children Demonstrate Shared Macrostructure in Stories [Poster Presentation, Meritorious Poster Submission]—Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, United States. 

Perez, C., Granados Vargas, A. (2023, June). Nature of Vocabulary Change Following the Language and Literacy Together Intervention [Poster Presentation]. Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, United States. 

2024 - 2026 

National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 

F31: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellowship. Project: “Documenting the Home and Community Storytelling Practices of Mexican-American Emergent Bilinguals Labeled as Disabled.” Role: PI. Approx: $81,400 

2023 - 2025 

University of California, Irvine School of Education 

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Advancement Spaces Grant 

2025: Project: Critical Conversations: A School of Education Book Club. $2,500 

Co-Awardees: Jomar Lopes, Santiago Ojeda Ramirez 

2024: Project: Critical Conversations: A School of Education Book Club. $2,000 

Co-Awardees: Jomar Lopes, Kelley Riffenburgh 

2023: Project: Social Justice Book Club. $2,500 

Co-Awardees: Jomar Lopes, Kelley Riffenburgh 

2024 

University of California, Irvine - School of Education 

Deborah Lowe Vandell Dissertation Research Award. $665 

2024 

California State University Pre-Professor Program (PREPP) 

PREPP Fellowship 

California State University, Fullerton 

Mentors: Drs. Rosario Ordonez-Jasis (Education) and Nina Robson (Engineering) 

$1,000 

2023 - 2024 

Mellon Foundation and the University of Illinois at Chicago 

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship. 

Research Working Group: The Latinx Past: Archive, Memory & Speculation. Approx: $36,000 

2021 

University of California, Irvine 

Diversity Recruitment Fellowship. $5,000 

2021 - 2026 

University of California, Irvine 

Office of Special Education Programs Scholar 

2021 

University of California, San Diego 

Cota-Robles Fellowship. $44,583.98 (declined)