around the uft
Speech celebrations
Jun 5, 2008 12:48 PM
May was Better Hearing and Speech Month so there was a lot going on for the UFT Speech Improvement Chapter. It was a full house at UFT headquarters on “Super Sunday,” May 4, when 250 speech teachers gathered to learn about Promoting Conversational Skills in Students with Asperger’s Syndrome and other forms of autism. The following week, the chapter celebrated the month by honoring winners in its children’s poster contest and teachers whose special projects went above and beyond the tough-enough demands of the classroom. Just how above and beyond those projects went is evident from the following examples: Pedro Fuentes of PS/MS 29 in the Bronx and the speech and hearing students in his dance program joined in the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Walter Morgan of IS 98 in the Bronx took his Science Language Skills students to an international robotics competition in Japan and students of Lorraine Honor, of PS 16 on Staten Island, enjoyed her mythology curriculum grant with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Three of the five PS/MS 306 students who created the winning football field poster share the spotlight with (back row left to right) their teacher Tia Walker, Mindy Karten Bornemann and Judy Manning of the Department of Education.
Chapter Leader Mindy Karten Bornemann (left) joins the above and beyond project winners as they smile for the camera.
Nolan Southwell and Elijah Fabian show off their winners’ ribbons backed by teachers Cleo Lucas (left) and Janie Oakman of PS/MS 306, Brooklyn.
Guest speaker Dana Battaglia, clinical coordinator of outreach services at the EdenII/Genesis Program, talks about forms of autism.
