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Families and school personnel (including those in training) who have at least one student with a disability can sign up for free membership.

Accessible Media

Standards-aligned videos with high-quality captions and audio description.

Teaching Tools

Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.

Training Videos

Educator and sign language training videos for school personnel and families.
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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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Accessibility Guidelines

DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, the Captioning Key and Description Key, used worldwide.
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Find answers for your questions, including how to apply, locating media, settings for captions, audio description, and ASL, and creating Student Accounts. Help Center
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Continuing Education and Professional Development

DCMP offers several online courses, including many that offer RID and ACVREP credit. Courses for students are also available.
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QuickClasses

Asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision, or deaf-blind.

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Workshops

For interpreters, audio describers, parents, and educators working with students who are deaf or blind. Full membership is required for most.
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Modules

Modules are selfpaced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
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Students

These self-paced online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note taking, and learning about audio description.

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Make your educational content accessible and broadly available.

DCMP can add captions, audio description, and sign language interpretation to your educational videos and E/I programming.
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Accessibility

Captions are essential for deaf and hard of hearing viewers, and audio description makes visual content accessible for the blind and visually impaired.

Distribution

DCMP can ensure that your content is always accessible and always available to children with disabilities through our secure streaming platforms.

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About the Described and Captioned Media Program

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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Low-angle view of the upper half of a Greek sculpture of a bearded man with his left hand outstretched in front and his right hand with palm up behind him. Caption. But the water that flowed contained salt.

Several Indian men wearing slacks and button up shirts congregate in the sun on gray stone stairs. Caption. Today, the majority of India's population is Hindu.

Closeup view of an enormous brown tree trunk with smaller vines growing up it, with a canopy of trees visible in the background.

Digital map of Uzbekistan amongst surrounding countries, with 3 red dots marking the cities of Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent. Caption. There are other oasis towns in Uzbekistan.

Large intricate stone cathedral with 2 towers on the left and a green roof seen from a distance against a blue sky. Several trees and houses surround the cathedral. Caption. Is a bridge leading to the cathedral.

Low clouds rolling in from left over a steep, pointy, snow capped mountain range on a sunny day. Caption. The Amazon River flows from the steep Andes mountains.

Digital map of the country of Romania, with a red dot in the east marking the city of Tulcea and blue line marking the path of the Danube River. Caption. Near Tulcea, the Danube River divides.

Cartoon map of the state of Florida and surrounding islands. Caption. With a total area of 5900 square kilometers.

Low angle view of a tall tower with a large round clock sticking up out of a brick building against a blue sky. Caption. The city hall, Palazzo Vecchio.

Sprawling 2-story red palace with many windows and cone-shaped bushes and a green lawn in the front. Caption. Sponsored for this project was Leonardo da Vinci.

4 women with colorful hijabs and 1 small child converse while riding in the open back of a truck. 3 men in dark jackets ride in front of them, and 1 looks back at the women. Caption. The capital city was called Hattusha.

Simple digital map with varying shades of green depicting the border between Brazil and Argentina. A red dot marks where Iguazú Falls are found. Caption. Or 1 point 8 miles in length.

Simplified digital map of the city of Istanbul, Turkey on a strip of land separating the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. A larger map of Turkey and surrounding countries is darker in the background.

Elderly man and woman with graying hair wearing coats and stand looking at something in front of a large bronze statue in an open square.

Low-angle view of the top of a green spire with a gold statue of an angel at its top against a gray sky. Caption. Through different phases of construction.

Map of Central America with Mexico highlighted and 2 red markers in Southern Mexico.

Digital map of the Middle East with a red dot in approximately Syria and another in approximately Jordan. A blue oval intersects a red oval over the dot in Jordan. Caption. From Mesopotamia to Egypt.

Simplified digital map of Bulgaria with irregular shapes in shades of brown and green and a red blurry circle in the bottom center marking Pirin National Park. Caption. Or 106 square miles.

Digital map of the country of Spain with tan colors in the middle and green colors around the perimeter. 2 red dots are near each other in the upper middle of the country. Caption. It sits in the Castile region.

Digital map of Costa Rica and Panama next to surrounding countries. A red dot in Costa Rica marks the city of San José. Caption. Induces heavy rains to drench the extensive primeval forests.