Learning Center

Is Your Student Ready for What Comes Next?

Life is a series of transitions. Children face changes and challenges as they transition from kindergarten to first grade; from elementary to middle school; and from middle to high school. But perhaps the most challenging transition comes after graduation from high school, because there are so many choices. Teachers and parents often struggle to ensure that their students are ready for this major transition.

Moko the Young Explorer Episode Guide (English)

These are just some of the many questions that a young child will ask. Moko answers these questions as he travels all over the world, discovering many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him and other times scare him.

Everyone Needs a Role Model - Jake Olson

Children often hear the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” They may respond by sharing their goals of wanting to become an astronaut, rock star, princess, or president. While these professions are unlikely outcomes for most children, we try not to discourage their dreams. Do we offer the same level of encouragement to students with disabilities? We should. There are many role models for these students who show us anything is possible.

Converting YouTube SBV Subtitles to SubRip SRT Format

One of the most intriguing CIY-related developments in captioning has been Google’s announcement of automatic accessibility features for YouTube channels. Most of the buzz has surrounded the auto-caption feature; based upon the speech-to-text engine that powers Google Voice, auto-caption allows individual viewers to access a machine-generated transcription of a video’s speech content, which is then automatically synchronized with the video’s sound track and displayed as individual captions. However, it is the auto-sync feature that figures to be—at least in the short term—a real game-changer for serious CIYers.

Deaf History

Teachers, parents, and other adults working in some educational capacity with a K–12 student (or students) who is deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind are invited to register for a free DCMP account. Media is available instantly from our website, and can often be mailed to you on DVD.

Equal Access in the Classroom

You may have seen these symbols around our website, on our brochures, and in advertisements. What do they mean? Before we answer, think about this: it is estimated that 8 million students in the U.S. have some degree of hearing loss, and that over 90,000 students in the U.S. are blind or visually impaired.

Helen Keller

described and captioned educational media and other resources

Including Samuel

Including Samuel is a passionate and inspiring documentary about the hopes and struggles of a family to include their son who has cerebral palsy. Photojournalist and father, Dan Habib, created this documentary to show the cultural and systemic barriers to inclusion.

The Miracle Worker

Helen Keller’s loss of vision and hearing in infancy made comprehension of the outside world next to impossible—or so it seemed. When teacher Anne Sullivan agreed to work with Keller, that world opened up, and they both learned essential life-altering lessons. Teaching the values of patience, tolerance, and compassion, together they made the name Helen Keller synonymous with the education of the deaf and blind. An icon while living and a legend decades after she passed away, Helen Keller accomplished the impossible and inspired the world.

Barack Obama on Biography®

The DCMP is pleased to offer this episode of the Emmy® award-winning Biography® series from A&E about our newly inaugurated President Barack Obama.

Olympics - Accessible Resources for Educators

Deaf Mosaic #804 The Demi-Paradise Families Of Russia Hands on Crafts for Kids: Russia Make A Wish, Molly Molly's Pilgrim Russia News Stories

Barack Obama: The Power of Change

Archival footage from campaign speeches by Barack Obama is interspersed with interviews and reflections from famous cultural figures in this chronicle of the 2008 Presidental campaign. Examines the cultural significance of Obama’s rise to prominence set against a backdrop of “hope, change, inspiration, and equality—for all Americans.” Among those interviewed or featured in this production are Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Mitchell Schwartz, Stevie Wonder, Dr. Cornell West, Tavis Smiley, Hill Harper, and Tyson Beckford.

Social Skills Cinema

In May 2011, the Texas Committee for the Education of Students with Visual Impairments offered teachers, parents, and students with visual impairments across the United States and Canada an opportunity to submit a short video on the theme, "Social Skills: Putting the 'C' in Cool." The contest provided a perfect opportunity to highlight a favorite lesson to teach social skills at home, school, or in the community. In 2012 and 2013, the contest was continued with the theme, "Lessons for the Real World."

Spanish Language Resources from the DCMP

Welcome to the DCMP’s collection of Spanish language resources. Here, you can access DCMP articles that have been translated into Spanish, explore a F.A.Q. about accessibility (from dicapta), and find information about DCMP’s collection of Spanish language educational videos.

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