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Accessibility Information

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.
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DCMP offers several online courses, including many that offer RID and ACVREP credit. Courses for students are also available.
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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.
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Modules are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
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These self-paced, online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note-taking, and learning about audio description.

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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.

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U.S. Department of Education Funding for Accessible Media

The ED funds a Media Center grant to provide accessible, educational media to children with disabilities, as well as three Television Access grants. Grants are managed by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
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Educational Media Center

DCMP creates and streams accessible educational media to serve 7.5 million students, develops new technologies, and more through this ED grant. This includes the creation of high-quality captioning, audio description, and American Sign Language interpretation.

Television Access Grants

These grants support projects that add audio description and sign language interpretation to broadcast content. Bridge Multimedia, Dicapta, and DCMP operate OSEP-funded projects that develop high-quality audio description and ASL which align with educational standards to aid learning.
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A sign language interpreter signing. Text says ASL Pop-up Videos.

Select DCMP videos include American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation through a pop-up window for videos not natively in ASL. Select the "interpret" icon in the player controls to launch the pop-up. Reposition the window by clicking and dragging. Suggestions for additional DCMP videos to be interpreted can be sent to recommendations@dcmp.org.

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Storybook excerpt shows a purple polka-dot monkey speaking to a little brown monkey, a pink bunny, and a blue owl inside a home. Text reads, “They may look similar, but they are different indeed. We sure are a good team. They changed shapes and sizes while staying true to who they were at heart and brought rainbows when others saw darkness.”

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Man wearing a traditional chef's jacket stands in a restaurant kitchen using sign language. He points his index finger to the top of his other hand. Caption. Meats, poultry, fish, deli products, and breads laid out along the outer walls of the store.

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Color illustration. Closeup of baby staring upward touching cheek of distressed looking woman.

Person weighs a hellbender salamander in a bowl on a small scale.

Cartoon of a black bear wearing work clothes and a sun hat leaning over and holding an axe above a log that is partially split. Caption. Chirping.

Cartoon. Bear holds a stack of books and clothing on top of its head while wading through a river. Caption. Henry hopped from rock to rock across the Sudbury River.

Color illustration. Young Black boy stands, looking apprehensive, next to a man laying in bed and looking back at him. Caption. Some slaves were freed by their owners.

Above a photo of a tiger is the label “Carnivores.” Above the photo of a tan bear is the label, “Omnivores.” Above the photo of an elephant is the word “Herbivores.”

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Historical map of Martha’s Vineyard from 1775.

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Cartoon. Green alligator, speaking. Crown and paddle ball toy lie on floor behind. Caption. Maybe she will have a surprise for me.

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Illustration of a dinosaur with a red and white ridge on its head and yellow fur on its back reclining on pillows and holding up an open book.

Book cover shows an illustration of a green dinosaur with an orange head cresting waves. Text reads, “How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye?”

Metal shipping containers on the deck of a cargo ship. Caption: The ship's metal is more dense than water,

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Title text reads, “Choosing Candidates: Primaries, Caucuses, and Party Conventions," against a blue background covered in stars.

Title text reads, "How do Plants Grow for Kids," over a diagram that shows how a plant grows.

Cross section of earth showing deep fissures. Caption: separated by huge cracks running deep into the crust,

$View of the ground and lake partially covered by snow. Caption: But even that is just a fraction of the total flood$

Molten, glowing sphere being pelted by rocks. Caption: was the fledgling Earth.

Several volcanoes oozing lava and emitting smoke. Caption: They were pushed back by these mountains of fire.

Cross section of earth showing a bulge of magma sending streaks of magma up through cracks in Earth's crust to the surface where they exit as lava. Caption: the bulging crust bust open,

Tall, snowy, and rocky mountain as seen from below. Caption: Is Everest shrinking or growing?

Lava field in foreground with evergreen trees and snowy mountain in background. Caption: Southwest of St. Helens, he investigates an area

Sand dunes. Caption: The wind that builds them also blows them away,

Steeply sloping walls of layered, red sedimentary rock. Caption: the Grand Canyon remains the most famous of them all.

Lava shooting into the air. Caption: pouring out of volcanoes all around the Ring of Fire.

Illustration of a plate of Earth's crust being pushed beneath a second plate. Caption: (narrator) As the two plates moved towards each other,

A volcano emits ash and smoke, as seen from a city street. Caption: (narrator) It's the nightmare scenario that everyone fears.

A rocky sheer cliff with a river cascading down the face of it, as seen from above. Caption: is shaping this magnificent landscape.

Light green background with a graphic of a story map on the right and text on the left that reads, "How to create a story map. Teaching without frills."

Blue background with a graphic of an essay outline on the left. Text on the right reads, "How to create an outline. Teaching without frills."

Cartoon of a man and woman standing behind a podium with the presidential crest, red and blue balloons dropping from the ceiling. Caption. If the President dies or is unable to hold office.

Light purple background with a clip art drawing of a stack of books in the lower left corner. Text on image reads, "How to retell a story. Teaching without frills."

Illustration. Teaching without Frills. White cloud against a pink background with text that reads, "How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids! Episode 2. Brainstorming." Below this, a cartoon woman looks up with a curious expression.

Illustration. Teaching without Frills. White cloud against a pink background with text that reads, "How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids! Episode 6. Closing." Below this, a cartoon woman looks up with a curious expression.

Illustration. Teaching without Frills. White cloud against a pink background with text that reads, "How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids! Episode 5. Events." Below this, a cartoon woman looks up with a curious expression.

Illustration. Teaching without Frills. White cloud against a pink background with text that reads, "How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids! Episode 4. Introduction." Below this, a cartoon woman looks up with a curious expression.

Illustration. Teaching without Frills. White cloud against a pink background with text that reads, "How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids! Episode 3. Planning." Below this, a cartoon woman looks up with a curious expression.

Illustration. Teaching without Frills. White cloud against a pink background with text that reads, "How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids! Episode 7. Revising." Below this, a cartoon woman looks up with a curious expression.

Illustration. Teaching without Frills. White cloud against a pink background and oversized pencil and text that reads, "How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids!"

Pink background with drawings of 2 adults and 2 kids on the right, and 1 boy holding a blank paper on the left. Text in the middle of the screen reads, "How to write for your audience. Teaching without frills."

Black text on a cloudy sky background reads, How-To Writing. Episode 1. Brainstorming. Below this, illustrations of a thought bubble, pen, and stack of paper.

Black text on a cloudy sky background reads, How-To Writing. Episode 4. Revising Steps. Below this, illustrations of a thought bubble, pen, and stack of paper.

Black text on a cloudy sky background reads, How-To Writing. Episode 5. Writing a Closing. Below this, illustrations of a thought bubble, pen, and stack of paper.

Black text on a cloudy sky background reads, How-To Writing. Episode 2. Writing an Introduction. Below this, illustrations of a thought bubble, pen, and stack of paper.

Black text on a cloudy sky background reads, How-To Writing. Episode 3. Writing Steps. Below this, illustrations of a thought bubble, pen, and stack of paper.

Woman seated in chair looking at camera and gesturing in sign language, 1 hand bent at the wrist with fingers down, other hand wrapped around fingertips. Caption. A person may be infected for a few weeks to years and never know it.

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Eye of a hurricane swirls on a dark background with glowing blue data visualizations. Text underscored with orange and red reads, "Hurricane Alert."