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Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2019

Parents, students and speech therapists gathered at UFT headquarters, Manhattan, on May 30 for the 13th annual Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration.
Woman poses with three children
Sarah Wiesel, a speech therapist at PS 161 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and her students, whose separate “memoirs” of a frog, a penguin and a bunny earned them recognition at the Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration.
Jonathan Fickies
People seated applauding
About 200 students, parents and speech and hearing providers gathered at Shanker Hall for the ceremony and dinner.
Jonathan Fickies
Woman at mic with man next to her
Speech provider Victoria Swerski speaks about Christopher Mena, a senior at the HS of Hospitality Management in Manhattan who organized the first LGBQT club at the school and created an inspirational brochure for LGBQT students.
Jonathan Fickies
Women at podium
District 12 speech providers (from left) Elaine Millington, Elizabeth Orecchio, Ashley Leighton and Amanda Losquatro, who collaborated on an examination of students with deficits in executive function.
Jonathan Fickies
Three women pose, one with flowers in her hand

Former Chapter Leader Mindy Karten Bornemann (left) is presented with the Friend of the Chapter Award by Brenda Caquias (center), the co-chair of the chapter, and Caroline Murphy, the chapter leader.

Jonathan Fickies
Adults and children pose for camera

Speech provider Connie Cai (third from left) of PS 42, Manhattan, with three of her students and their family members.

Jonathan Fickies
Woman holding plaque poses with boy
Sonia Shehadeh, a speech provider at PS 8 in the Bronx, with student Dylan Peralta, who wrote about “what speech and language mean to me.”
Jonathan Fickies
12 women and a man on stage
Chapter Leader Caroline Murphy (center) with the event committee.
Jonathan Fickies
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Woman poses with three children
Sarah Wiesel, a speech therapist at PS 161 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and her students, whose separate “memoirs” of a frog, a penguin and a bunny earned them recognition at the Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration.
Jonathan Fickies
People seated applauding
About 200 students, parents and speech and hearing providers gathered at Shanker Hall for the ceremony and dinner.
Jonathan Fickies
Woman at mic with man next to her
Speech provider Victoria Swerski speaks about Christopher Mena, a senior at the HS of Hospitality Management in Manhattan who organized the first LGBQT club at the school and created an inspirational brochure for LGBQT students.
Jonathan Fickies
Women at podium
District 12 speech providers (from left) Elaine Millington, Elizabeth Orecchio, Ashley Leighton and Amanda Losquatro, who collaborated on an examination of students with deficits in executive function.
Jonathan Fickies
Three women pose, one with flowers in her hand

Former Chapter Leader Mindy Karten Bornemann (left) is presented with the Friend of the Chapter Award by Brenda Caquias (center), the co-chair of the chapter, and Caroline Murphy, the chapter leader.

Jonathan Fickies
Adults and children pose for camera

Speech provider Connie Cai (third from left) of PS 42, Manhattan, with three of her students and their family members.

Jonathan Fickies
Woman holding plaque poses with boy
Sonia Shehadeh, a speech provider at PS 8 in the Bronx, with student Dylan Peralta, who wrote about “what speech and language mean to me.”
Jonathan Fickies
12 women and a man on stage
Chapter Leader Caroline Murphy (center) with the event committee.
Jonathan Fickies
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