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Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Appreciation Week is the first full week in May of each year. The National Education Association describes National Teacher Day “as a day for honoring teachers and recognizing the lasting contributions they make to our lives.”

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Earth Day and March for Science - April 22

Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in, first held on April 22, 1970. Activities for Earth Day, and often for the whole week, focus on the environmental issues that the world faces. These issues include extreme weather, rising sea levels, and altered ecosystems due to increased levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere.

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April is National Autism Awareness Month

Hearing and vision screening for very young children can be difficult to diagnose when the child also has autism. It is possible for a child to have a significant visual impairment and autism, or a hearing loss and autism. Up to 40% of children with hearing loss having an additional disability.

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On-demand Accessible Television for Home and the Classroom

In 2015, the U.S. Department of Education announced that several children’s television programs could now be viewed online with captioning and description through DCMP’s Accessible Television Portal. Since that time, DCMP has continued working with ED Television Access grantees to make accessible television content available at no cost to thousands of students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deafblind. Broadcast content is provided by the major television networks, as well as producers and distributors like PBS Kids, the Fred Rogers Company, Sprout, and Litton Entertainment.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Election

Whether you're focused on national or local elections, DCMP has accessible resources to support you. These include 45 described and captioned videos! We also have compiled some sources of information concerning the "Help America Vote Act" and other resources of special interest to voters who are blind or deaf.

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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.

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Helen Keller

described and captioned educational media and other resources

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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