The exhibition basketball team Harlem Globetrotters from New York City visited students at Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf in New York on Wednesday.

The Globetrotters impressed the children with their on-court skills, and the children also enjoyed the moment with the famous American freestyle basketball group.

The team's member Chris "Animal" Hyche, whose parents are hearing impaired, was joined by fellow Zeus McClurkin and Hoops Green to promote their charity activity – T.E.A.M program, which is designed to help prevent bullying in schools.

Hyche chose not to use a sign language interpreter but "spoke" directly to the children by using American Sign Language himself instead, as that was the first language he mastered in his life.

He said: ''The reaction was priceless. It's not every day they get people they can relate to especially professional athletes so I know it made their day and it made mine too. Parent impaired, the community holds a special place in my heart because I grew up in a deaf household. My mom and dad were hearing-impaired. My teammates growing up and friends in the neighborhood they were just like flabbergasted when they come over and I'm speaking to my mom in sign language but to me, it was like an everyday thing you know.''