For Shelly Doron, a speech teacher at PS 67 in Brooklyn, the 18th annual Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration on May 30 was a moment for her 2nd-grade student, Pynelopi, to celebrate the year’s hard work and cheer on other students with similar speech challenges. Doron and Pynelopi were honored for their book, “Looking Like Me — A Story of an Individual Who Stutters.”

“It’s an opportunity to share the fruits of her labor with other people and a chance to see there are other kids who stutter,” Doron said. “It helps the kids know they’re not alone in the world.”

Doron was among the 41 speech teachers and dozens of students who were recognized at union headquarters on May 30.

The mood was triumphant as students and speech teachers gathered to admire one another’s work. Students proudly posed for photos with their projects, which were displayed on easels and tables in Shanker Hall.

“It’s extremely important for the parents and students to honor their achievements and to show how much we do in our profession,” said Speech Improvement Chapter Leader Caroline Murphy.

The 32 projects displayed the wide variety of therapies that speech teachers provide.

Elizabeth Chung, a bilingual speech teacher at PS 221 in Queens, and her two students were honored for their Venn diagram, “We Speak Two Languages,” which articulated what they study in each language and what they study in both languages during their speech therapy sessions.

Shira Sassoon, of PS 15 in Queens, displayed a process she designed, titled “CAT Team Automation,” to help evaluators for augmentative and alternative communication technology more efficiently generate reports, purchase orders and related service documents that are part of the record-keeping for each student. The streamlined process, which is now used citywide, has significantly reduced the paperwork burden, allowing evaluators to spend more time with students.

“Speech and language teachers can sometimes feel a little in the shadows,” said Chung, because so few people understand the broad array of services they provide. The yearly celebration allows parents, students and even the speech teachers themselves to see “many different types of students coming together,” she said.

UFT Vice President for Special Education MaryJo Ginese celebrated the accomplishments of speech teachers and students alike. “It’s so rewarding to see the work the clinicians have done all year and the progress the students have made,” she said. “These kids are going to remember this.”