Free Membership - Access to more than just media

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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Accessible Media

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

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Teaching Tools

Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.

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Training Videos

Educator and sign language training videos for school personnel and families.

Get Involved

Posters! Events! Contests! So many different ways to get involved with LIL… and we’re always looking for more ideas, so drop us a line, and let us know what sort of listening-related activity or promotional idea would be a great addition to our collection!

Printed Materials

Order our free LIL posters, brochure, certificate and lesson guide for your classroom, library, or office (and make sure to ask for extras to hand out to friends and colleagues as well)!

For ordering information, visit the LIL Print Materials page »

Lesson Guide

Our educational experts have put together a lesson guide with tips on how to use described media in the classroom to teach listening skills for improving comprehension and writing skills.

Lesson Guide

Events and Contests

Teachers and parents: Encourage your students to get involved with LIL directly by participating in these events and contests.

Learn more about current events and contest—as well as those planned for the future—by visiting the LIL Events and Contests page »

A Little Bit About Listening is Learning

Listening is Learning is a joint initiative of the Described and Captioned Media Program and the American Council of the Blind with the purpose of raising awareness about the educational benefits of listening to description.

Connect with Listening is Learning

This is just the beginning of Listening is Learning! For now, you can access up-to-date LIL information and interact with LIL from the following sources:

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Are You Looking for Accessible Educational Media?

The DCMP provides free access to thousands of captioned and described educational videos to registered members who work with K–12 students with vision or hearing loss.

Guidelines for Equal Access to Educational Media

The DCMP Description Key for Educational Media

The Description Key for Educational Media serves as a blueprint for anyone looking to make video accessible for students with vision loss.

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