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Free Membership - Access to more than just media

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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DCMP partners with top creators and distributors of educational content. Take a look
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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Services

Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

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Television Access

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YouTube Audio Description

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Brown background with dark blue, green, teal squares. Text reads, “Engagement tools for Charged up Learning. Give one, get one.”

Brown background with dark blue, green, orange, and white squares. Text reads, “Engagement tools for Charged up Learning Laying The Groundwork.”

Brown background with dark blue and teal squares. Text reads, “Engagement tools for Charged up Learning. Physical Barometer.”

Brown background with dark blue and teal squares. Text reads, “Engagement tools for Charged up Learning. Scavenger Hunt.”

Chalkboard background. Text reads, “Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind. Elementary school.”

Middle school classroom with students sitting at desks that are pushed together in groups of four.

Woman wearing a short sleeve lab coat and name badge speaks just off camera in a medical office setting. Text below her reads, "Swelling of mouth or throat".

Young child reaching into a container being offered by an adult. Caption: they'll select a small number to study.

Person holding a shell to their mouth. Caption: Our forefathers traveled the oceans far and wide,

Curving "C" shaped island with sharply elevated sides. Caption: Now the Galapagos is again a scientific frontier

Person in scuba gear with scientific equipment as seen from below. Caption: (man) I found out that the sharks on the reef were in trouble.

Scuba diver swimming over a teeming coral reef. Caption: (man) it's almost like a small laboratory for us.

Scuba diver swimming over a coral reef. Caption: I would go out every day and scuba dive on the reefs,

Coral reef in foreground, plant life, swimming fish and sandy ocean floor in background. Caption: (Sherman) This is what a healthy reef should look like,

Title text reads, "Channel 1 Presents Goal Setting," over a photo of a woman opening her arms wide in front of green mountains and a valley.

Black and white frame of soldiers from the movie, Hamlet. Caption. What, has this thing appeared again tonight?

Senior man gives a high five to a teenage girl across a reception desk. Next to him, a woman is seated in front of a computer and 2 other teenagers are nearby. Caption. Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism.

Dry, brown hilly terrain. Caption: The landscape and the vegetation changed rapidly.

Streaks of dark and light. Caption: the climate was still unstable, particularly the spring of 536.

Person slightly squinting. Caption: I hear that, but I probably won't remember the numbers.