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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teachers and their students were honored for innovative projects at the 17th annual Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration at UFT headquarters. Their projects were displayed throughout Shanker Hall and presented via video.

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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teachers Heather Park (left) of PS 98 in Queens and Perri Wallowitz of PS 133 in Queens display their students' projects.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teachers, their students and students’ family members gather in Shanker Hall to celebrate.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech Improvement Chapter Leader Caroline Murphy congratulates the speech teachers and students for their hard work.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Serving on the Better Speech and Hearing Month Committee (from left to right) are Ladesha Outing, Ana Machuca, Caroline Murphy, George Pagano, Susannah Blum, Brenda Caquias, Lorina Allert, Deborah Alexander and Katherine Lewis.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

UFT Vice President Anne Goldman, who was honored with the Friend of the Chapter award, salutes the speech teachers and students. "This is the culmination of the incredible partnership between our children and our educators," she said.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teacher Nadia Garris of PS 160 in the Bronx hands the mic to her students to describe their game "On the Path to Speech Success."

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teachers (from left to right) Natalie Diaz, Desmond Rivera and Lisa Falcon of PS 103 in the Bronx accept their award for their project "Speech Learning Zone" from Speech Improvement Chapter Leader Caroline Murphy, at the podium.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Karla Dillard-Skinner from PS 236 in the Bronx presents her "Hugs Project," developed to help children learn how to appropriately ask for, give and receive hugs.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teacher Jillian Fischer of PS 138@30 in Manhattan describes her project "Gaining Gourmet Goals," developed to help one of her students expand his "food repertoire" by trying new flavors and textures.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teachers (from left) Magy Aziz of IS 363 of Brooklyn and Krystal Toles and Michael Pappas of IS/HS 644 of Brooklyn (at right) accept their awards with speech supervisor Stacy Bastien-Renelique (second from right).

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Margaryta Kuzmin of 771K@Brooklyn Studio and 771K@329 accepts her award for her project "Gabriella the Great: Eating, Reading and Speaking!" and for her reading-buddy program, which paired District 75 high school students with elementary school students.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teachers Heather Park (left) of PS 98 in Queens and Perri Wallowitz of PS 133 in Queens display their students' projects.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teachers, their students and students’ family members gather in Shanker Hall to celebrate.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech Improvement Chapter Leader Caroline Murphy congratulates the speech teachers and students for their hard work.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Serving on the Better Speech and Hearing Month Committee (from left to right) are Ladesha Outing, Ana Machuca, Caroline Murphy, George Pagano, Susannah Blum, Brenda Caquias, Lorina Allert, Deborah Alexander and Katherine Lewis.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

UFT Vice President Anne Goldman, who was honored with the Friend of the Chapter award, salutes the speech teachers and students. "This is the culmination of the incredible partnership between our children and our educators," she said.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teacher Nadia Garris of PS 160 in the Bronx hands the mic to her students to describe their game "On the Path to Speech Success."

Jonathan Fickies
Image
Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teachers (from left to right) Natalie Diaz, Desmond Rivera and Lisa Falcon of PS 103 in the Bronx accept their award for their project "Speech Learning Zone" from Speech Improvement Chapter Leader Caroline Murphy, at the podium.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Karla Dillard-Skinner from PS 236 in the Bronx presents her "Hugs Project," developed to help children learn how to appropriately ask for, give and receive hugs.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teacher Jillian Fischer of PS 138@30 in Manhattan describes her project "Gaining Gourmet Goals," developed to help one of her students expand his "food repertoire" by trying new flavors and textures.

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Speech teachers (from left) Magy Aziz of IS 363 of Brooklyn and Krystal Toles and Michael Pappas of IS/HS 644 of Brooklyn (at right) accept their awards with speech supervisor Stacy Bastien-Renelique (second from right).

Jonathan Fickies
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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2023

Margaryta Kuzmin of 771K@Brooklyn Studio and 771K@329 accepts her award for her project "Gabriella the Great: Eating, Reading and Speaking!" and for her reading-buddy program, which paired District 75 high school students with elementary school students.

Jonathan Fickies

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