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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.
Captioning Key
Description Key

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

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

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Accessibility Policy

Mission and Funding

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Video Project

Founded in 1983, the mission of the Video Project is to provide the best media programming available on critical social and global issues to classrooms and communities to help advance awareness and encourage action on the most important concerns of our times. The Video Project collection features programs for all ages from over 200 independent filmmakers, including Oscar and Emmy winners, as well as films that aired on Showtime, HBO and PBS. Video Project's films are regularly honored with top festival awards and with critical praise from major review publications.

Players of two football teams celebrate together in an outdoor stadium.

Closeup of glass containers of water with visible particulate matter. One is labeled 1/18/16. Caption: "This is safe." That's what they told us.

Still image from: Growing Up Green

Round metal object underwater. Caption: is that water creates a shield for radiation.

A large landfill. Caption: Dylan, Landfills have become huge mountains of trash.

A brokenplastic container is found on the shores. Caption: Broken pieces are becoming part of the beach.

A flooded neighborhood. Caption: living here, in the future's past.

Crowd of people looking in 1 direction with distressed expressions on their faces.

Extremely busy city street full of vehicles and people. Caption: But the problem goes beyond these numbers.

Silhouettes of a flock of geese fly above bare branches in a peachy pink sky.

Still image from: Nature's Orchestra: Sounds of Our Changing Planet

Black and white photo of 3 nurses looking at a girl in a hospital bed with suspended right leg in foot to knee cast. Caption. Environment, and circumstance.

Still image from: Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco

Still image from: Petersburg Rising

Black girl wears a red collared shirt and two long braids in her hair as she faces away from us towards a white brick wall. Text reads, "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools."

Closeup of a young person wearing glasses and holding a microphone in front of a small crowd. Text reads, "Rap Squad."

Still image from: The Road to Justice

Children at their desks during break, 1 with head resting on his arm, others talking. Caption. Female. One disruptive kid can take away any learning.

Man with gray hair and a beard writes a math equation with chalk on a blackboard.

Still image from: A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW