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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.
Learning Center

Find resources for providing equal access in the classroom, making media accessible, and maximizing your use of DCMP's free services.
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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, used worldwide.
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Help Center

Learn how to apply for membership, find and view accessible media, and use DCMP’s teaching tools.
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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 hard of hearing, low vision, and deaf-blind.
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Modules

Modules are self-paced, 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 viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing, 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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Four students sit at a table holding small dry-erase boards. A girl points to an equation on her board that reads, “½ = 1 half.” Below them is a headline on a blue banner that reads, “Teaching the Concept of Equivalence, Not Just the Rule.”

Two children sit at a table in a classroom. Below them is a blue banner that reads, “The Importance of the Unit.”

Student sits at a table in a classroom. Below her is a blue banner that reads, “The Meanings and Representations of Fractions.”

A photo of a Cheetah.

A Satellite image of the Earth.

A photo of a glacier.

A Satellite image of the Earth. Sun is visible in the horizon.

Satellite image of Africa with two lines separating a portion of the southeast edge. Caption: and prepares to split Africa in two.

Illustration of India and Asia to the north. A line of mountains separates the two. Caption: giving birth to the towering Himalayas.

Coastline of two land masses with ocean in between. Caption: North America and Europe are moving away from each other

Sparse vegetation on a rocky hillside. Caption: is the very first piece of the European continent.

Sun setting between two rocky outcroppings over a body of water. Caption: Today the landscapes tell the story of Pangea's birth,

Illustration of a globe with landmasses. Caption: on the fiery surface of the planet.

Illustration of the globe with Africa highlighted. Caption: until forming the African continent we know today.

Aerial view of low clouds clinging to a mountain range on the left in the glow of a red setting sun. White text in the middle of the screen reads, "Islands of the Monsoon."

Silhouette of a mountain range as the sun sets behind wispy clouds. Back text in center of screen reads, "Kingdom of giants."

Multiple ranges of steep green hills with low-lying clouds on a blue-sky day. White text in the center of the screen reads, "Secret worlds."

Valley of green trees between light brown hills with sparse green bushes partially shaded by fully white clouds. White text in the bottom center of the screen reads, "Dragons' Domain."

Silhouette of the cone of a volcano in the distance with billowing clouds around in the red light of a sunset. White text in the center of the screen reads, "Volcano Nation."

Angled view of 2 female and 1 male teenager sitting in a row at a long table operating black desktop computers in a beige room. Caption. Are applied and used in a variety of settings.