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Families and school personnel (including those in training) who have at least one student with a disability can sign up for free membership.

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Standards-aligned videos with high-quality captions and audio description.

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Accessibility Information

DCMP's Learning Center provides hundreds of articles on topics such as remote learning, transition, blindness, ASL, topic playlists, and topics for parents.

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Accessibility Guidelines

DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, used worldwide.
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Continuing Education and Professional Development

DCMP offers several online courses, including many that offer RID and ACVREP credit. Courses for students are also available.
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QuickClasses

Asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision, or deaf-blind.

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Workshops

For interpreters, audio describers, parents, and educators working with students who are hard of hearing, low vision, and deaf-blind.
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Modules

Modules are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
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Students

These self-paced, online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note-taking, and learning about audio description.

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DCMP can add captions, audio description, and sign language interpretation to your educational videos and E/I programming.
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Accessibility

Captions are essential for viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing, and audio description makes visual content accessible for the blind and visually impaired.

Distribution

DCMP can ensure that your content is always accessible and always available to children with disabilities through our secure streaming platforms.

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The DCMP provides services designed to support and improve the academic achievement of students with disabilities. We partner with top educational and television content creators and distributors to make media accessible and available to these students.
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Accessible Videos Related to COVID-19

DCMP offers several accessible videos related to COVID-19 to help students, families, and teachers better understand the social, physical, and emotional effects of this virus. The videos are captioned and described for students with disabilities.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease first identified in December 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 30, 2020 and a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Detailed information can be found on the WHO and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) websites.

Titles Related to COVID-19

2 by 3 Brady Bunch-style grid of people and animals, including a fireman, cat, tiger, and doctor.

Computer rendering showing tiny air sacs called alveoli attached to red and blue capillaries.

Man in glasses and blue collared shirt gestures with hands out and lips pursed in mid-speech.

2 red lines branch off from a red dot at the top connecting to red dots that continue to branch off in twos 5 times to form a crown-shaped contagion.

Man talks to us while moving his hands.

Two people standing apart, both wearing surgical masks.

Digital rendering shows a group of purple, green, and red clumps fused together.

Man in glasses gestures with hand and parts lips in mid-speech. Toys and books on shelves displayed in background. Text at right reads, "Gimme that science!"

Line graph titled, "Exponential Growth, Covid-19." Y axis reads, "Cases open parentheses Outside of China close parentheses" and X axis reads, "Feb twelfth" at left and "March fifteenth" at right. Pink dots gradually curve upward from left to right where they're labeled "X, 1 point 4."

Aerial view of man in glasses looking up at camera as he wipes his hands with a paper towel next to kitchen sink.

Cartoon green smiley face that looks uncertain with germs around their mouth stands in front of a brown house. Next to the house are faces of different skin tones smiling and sticking their tongues out. The background has thermometers, stethoscopes, and crosses.

Screenshot of a video chat between Dianna and another woman. The other woman has dark hair with the ends dyed blue and green, over the head headphones with her hands up as she speaks. Dianna appears in the lower left corner wearing silver headphones.

Doctor injecting patient in their upper arm. Caption: To prevent the flu, many get the flu vaccine.

2-page view of a storybook with a cartoon woman with green hair closing her eyes. On the left, the story text reads, "To help yourself calm down, start by closing your eyes..."

A group of bats sleeping on tree branches.

Slide shows a closeup rendering of a circular gray coronavirus molecule with lumpy red, orange, and yellow proteins. Text reads, "Talking to Children About Covid-19."

Long line of people waiting indoors in a hallway. Some look down at papers in their hands while others look forward.

Girl wearing a striped shirt stands in front of a wall of monitors, the biggest of which displays the question, "What's in a name?"

Antivirals. A tablet of medication, an IV bag, and a vial with syringe.

Two cartoon characters with a DNA strand. Viruses.

Digital illustration of a prickly green ball with an angry face standing in front of 3 large white balls with angry faces. Title card reads, "Alert! Flu Virus."

Woman with brown hair wearing a red plaid shirt is in front of a computer and a bookshelf. She claps her hands together in front of her while talking.

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