For the first time in the Key Biscayne Fourth of July Parade’s 67-year history, the village expanded its celebration with a sensory-friendly fireworks viewing area and an ADA parade tent.<\/p>\n
Residents with special needs, and their families, gathered in the 12th-floor Observation Room at the Mar Azul condominium on Grapetree Drive to enjoy the nearly half-hour offshore fireworks display while wearing noise-canceling headphones.<\/p>\n
The sensory-friendly viewing area was made possible through a partnership among the Village of Key Biscayne’s Disability Advisory Board, the Mar Azul Condominium Association and its President Guillermo Garcia-Lay and the nonprofit It Takes a Village, which provided the headphones.<\/p>\n
Disability Advisory Board member Sonia Keif called the initiative a “great success” and said she hopes “to see it again in the future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in the Key Biscayne Fourth of July Parade’s 67-year history, the village expanded its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[87384,135479,9411,126,138820,134753,138818,123,125,124,138819],"class_list":["post-337153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-disability-advisory-board","tag-fourth-of-july-parade","tag-it-takes-a-village","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-disability-advisory-board","tag-key-biscayne-fourth-of-july-parade","tag-mar-azul-condominium","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-observation-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}