Featured In Houston Chronicle: RodeoHouston worked to make this year's rodeo more accessible. Here's how.
- Admin Team
- Mar 13, 2024
- 1 min read
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo implemented three major changes this year to help increase accessibility for people with disabilities.
Rodeo officials added an American sign language interpreter for all the events inside NRG Stadium, a sensory room in NRG Stadium and an ADA Handicapped bathroom.
Attendees can watch a livestream of the sign language interpreters on their phones. Amber Galloway, a renowned sign language interpreter whose company Amber G Productions is working with the rodeo on this project, said this is the first time she has ever heard of an event organizer of this size doing such a livestream.
“We’re always trying to be innovative,” said Holly Schweitzer, Houston Rodeo director of customer experience. “We want to make our event all-inclusive. We want everybody to be able to come out and enjoy it.”
Wow, this is fantastic news about RodeoHouston adding ASL interpreters and a sensory room! It's so important for big events to be all-inclusive, and the livestream ASL on phones sounds really innovative, like Holly Schweitzer said. On a totally different note, if anyone here is into gaming, I just saw something about digimon story time stranger iron slash and it looks pretty interesting!