NEW YORK—More than a thousand children with disabilities were treated to a unique performance at the Big Apple Circus at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park on Wednesday. Sign language interpreters and live play-by-play announcements helped the children with hearing and vision impairments enjoy the show.
Spotlighted sign language interpreters helped those with hearing impairments. Meanwhile, Big Apple Circus founders Paul Binder and Michael Christensen narrated a play-by-play description to those with vision impairments.
“The first year we did it, it was only blind kids and then we realized that there is an underserved community of hearing impaired kids as well,” said Binder.
