Speech teacher Marisa Ferrara Campos of PS 257 in Brooklyn and her student Aubrey Castillo celebrate their award for their project, “You Are My Sunshine ASL.”

Speech teachers Kadie Kubic of PS 186, Anita Thannickal and Elizabeth Chung of PS 221, and Heather Park of PS 98, all in Queens, are among the 41 providers honored at the celebration. The yearly event allows educators, parents and students to celebrate the “many different types of students coming together,” Chung said.

Speech Improvement Chapter Leader Caroline Murphy welcomes speech teachers, students and families to the celebration, which is held annually in Shanker Hall.

Speech teacher Heather Park of PS 98 in Queens listens to her students describe the project they worked on in their speech therapy sessions.

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

Proud family members and clinicians cheer the students who were honored for their exceptional projects.

Marsha Jones Wilson (left), a speech teacher at MS 442 in Brooklyn, and her teaching partner Christina Cannon (right) accept their award for a cooking project they called “Nest with a Zest,” designed to help students on the autism spectrum develop executive function and practice social skills. Joining them onstage is George Pagano of the Better Speech and Hearing Month Committee.