Families and school personnel (including those in training) who have at least one student with a disability can sign up for free membership.
Standards-aligned videos with high-quality captions and audio description.
Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.
Educator and sign language training videos for school personnel and families.
Find resources for providing equal access in the classroom, making media accessible, and maximizing your use of DCMP's free services.
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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DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, used worldwide.
Learn how to apply for membership, find and view accessible media, and use DCMP’s teaching tools.
DCMP offers several online courses, including many that offer RID and ACVREP credit. Courses for students are also available.
Asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision, or deaf-blind.
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For interpreters, audio describers, parents, and educators working with students who are hard of hearing, low vision, and deaf-blind.
Modules are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
These self-paced, online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note-taking, and learning about audio description.
DCMP can add captions, audio description, and sign language interpretation to your educational videos and E/I programming.
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.
DCMP can ensure that your content is always accessible and always available to children with disabilities through our secure streaming platforms.
DCMP partners with top creators and distributors of educational content. Take a look
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.
Last full week of September Purpose: To commemorate the first World Congress of the Deaf (1951) and to celebrate Deaf Culture
In an effort to ensure our students are college and career ready, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and The Council of Chief State School Officers, in collaboration with other stakeholders in the education community, created a framework known as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). To date, all but five states and the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico have adopted these standards.
Although women have been shaping human history since the dawn of civilization, the concept of Women's History Month has its roots firmly implanted in the date March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories protested untenable working conditions. As recently as the 1970s, the influence of women in history was a virtually nonexistent topic in public school curricula or even an element within general public consciousness and discourse. To address this situation, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women recognized "Women's History Week" during one week in March in 1978. In 1981 Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) cosponsored a joint Congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women's History Week. In 1987 Congress expanded the celebration to a month, and March was declared Women's History Month.
The Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) advocates for media accessibility and provides quality standards for captioning. In 2010, DCMP partnered with YouTube to increase awareness and improve the quality of captioning on YouTube. "YouTube Ready" captioning vendors were evaluated by the DCMP, passed a review of their YouTube captioning capability, and were qualified as "YouTube Ready" captioners.
The American Council of the Blind's Audio Description Project (ACB-ADP) and the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) are co-sponsoring an exciting contest and chance to win prizes for blind and visually impaired young people, in four categories from ages 7 to 21: the Benefits of Audio Description in Education (BADIE) contest.
Does your school offer dual enrollment classes? Dual enrollment allows students to take classes at a local college and potentially earn college credit while still in high school. There are many benefits beyond earning college credit. Students can get a taste of college coursework while still in a supportive home environment. They can take classes that might not be offered at their high school. And they can explore their interests without the stress of needing to declare a major.
In 2017 fans of America’s Got Talent were shocked when Mandy Harvey took the stage and delivered an amazing vocal rendition of her original songs accompanied by her ukulele. What made her performance shocking and amazing is the fact that Mandy is deaf. She was born with hearing loss and underwent several corrective surgeries as a child then lost her remaining hearing at the age of eighteen.
Online Notetaker Training is a self-guided training that defines the role of the notetaker, delivers information about hearing loss, and provides notetaking strategies that enable student notetakers to provide accurate, comprehensive classroom notes for students who are deaf and hard of hearing. The training can be completed in multiple sessions or all at once. When students are confident they have learned the material, an online quiz evaluates their notetaking knowledge. A passing score will earn a "Verification of Training Completion," which the student can print.
Here's how to manage and customize your DCMP account information, find handy shortcuts, and learn about valuable features that may be new to you.
Access: Post-Production / Offline Captioning is an overview of what captions are and why they are essential to providing access for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. The module reviews guidelines for captions, discusses laws pertaining to captioning, and compares various methods of creating captions. It also includes video examples and practice captioning simulations.
DCMP Director Jason Stark discusses the need, mandate, and quality standards for accessible educational media.
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the government, various organizations, and businesses teamed together to focus on the areas of entrepreneurship and financial literacy. A new curriculum resulted which primes students with tools for making sound personal financial decisions and lays the foundation for successful entrepreneurship. While various reports and research data have shown that financial literacy and entrepreneurial education will benefit all students, there is an increased need for persons with disabilities to participate in appropriately designed curriculum.
If the DCMP does not have an item you need, or if you'd like to purchase something the DCMP has in the collection, you may search our database of accessible educational media available for purchase from educational producers/distributors.
DCMP continually adds new described and captioned educational media to its collection. We're always looking for information about media that is needed for K-12 students who are deaf, hard of hearing, visually impaired, or deaf-blind.
A wealth of information can be found on the websites of these DCMP collaborators:
