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.
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DCMP's library of described and captioned educational videos is now available on Apple TV. If you have an Apple TV HD or Apple TV 4K that is running at least tvOS 12.3, you can search for “DCMP” in the App Store.
You can help promote accessible media in the classroom by ordering your free Described and Captioned Media Program promotional materials to display or hand out at schools, libraries or anywhere else.
¿Como pueden beneficiarlo los servicios de "caption" o subtitulos ocultos y la descripcion?
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.
DCMP Director Jason Stark discusses the need, mandate, and quality standards for accessible educational media.
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.
A wealth of information can be found on the websites of these DCMP collaborators:
Learn about the free media and information services we offer to schools and families.
Bill Stark provides a timeline and brief narrative of DCMP’s historical development, beginning in 1946 with the spawning of an idea for how to caption a film.
An address given by Dr. Doin Hicks on March 31, 1995 at the New Mexico School for the Deaf
The first Hispanic superintendent of a state school for the deaf, Gil Delgado has been called un padrino—a godfather—to children and adults who are Hispanic or deaf or both. Spending all his work life in education of deaf children and adults, he was a mentor to many, and a national leader not only in education, but also in captioning and telecommunications.
Doin Hicks writes about the Captioned Films for the Deaf (CFD) Ball State University project.
Len Novick, who served as project director of the Captioned Films for the Deaf (CFD) program from 1978-1985, offers his perspective on the history of CFD during his tenure.
In December of 1979, as a project at the University of Maryland, Karen Brickett interviewed Dr. Malcolm (Mac) J. Norwood, the "Father of Closed Captioning." Dr. Norwood relates how 10% of the general population would not accept captions on their TV screens, which necessitated the development of a closed-captioning system. He discusses the postponement of decoder sales until March of 1980, estimates of the number of potential viewers of closed-captioned TV, predicts 22 to 22½ hours of captioned programs will be available by the end of 1980, discusses the development of two captioning centers on the East Coast and West Coast, and addresses other exciting developments. This 25-minute production is the only known video of Dr. Norwood. Thanks to Karen Brickett Russell for sharing this record of captioning history.
El DCMP brinda a los padres una mejor opcion para ayudar a estudiantes ciegos o con impedimentos visuales a aprender de los componentes visuales contenidos en medios audiovisuales.
