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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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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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Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

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Object flying in the sky attached to a tether. Caption: We can capture more energy with less wind.

Closeup of a woman in an interview-style conversation. She is standing, smiling, and looking away from the camera. The blurry background has laboratory shelves and desktops. Caption. at the University of California, San Francisco.

Closeup of a woman laughing while speaking and looking to the side in an interview-style setting. Caption. I am a structural engineer.

Two people in a science lab working on a piece of equipment from opposite sides of the table. The equipment terminates in a spout leading to a large plastic drum. Caption: to improve access to safe water

Illustration of person in hardhat and overalls. Caption: Solar Installation Companies. We are working with solar installation companies.

Four people in reflective vests and hardhats install a very large solar panel in an array of other solar panels. Caption: They're expensive. They use a lot of material.

Close up of a golden eagle, wings folded. Caption: Where did this golden eagle come from?

Circular frame with a wavy pattern of high and low curves. Caption. They become forms.

Portrait of a Black woman using light and dark color and high-contrast stencil technique to create a stylized graphic design.

Closeup of a multi-colored rock on a display stand that has ridges, valleys, and small raised dots. Caption. Bookmakers, ceramicists.

Diagram of two plates of the Earth's crust causing an earthquake. The epicenter is at the junction point of the plates below the surface. Caption: Seismic waves - Waves that transmit the energy released by an earthquake.

Digital illustration of an office building towering above treetops beneath a blue sky. Handwritten white lettering reads, "Credit Card Company," with arrow pointing to building. Caption. Credit card companies lend you a certain amount of money.

Woman stands outside and holds both her hands up by her face with another person’s hand reaching in between them like they are doing a choreographed dance.

Aerial view of an intersection in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.

Black and white frame of Audrey Guerrero and Angie Egea salsa dancing with people watching in the background.

Man wearing a white face mask holds onto a wooden cane. Caption reads, "he is still my mestre."

Man wearing a black hoodie stands staring at us on the sidewalk in Baltimore. An older man walks behind him.

Two men Capoeira dance as the rest of their dance team watches and claps around them in a school gymnasium.

Woman dances on train tracks in Chicago, Illinois.

Person balances sideways on the back of someone a person wearing a purple hoodie as they dance the Lindy Hop in a Harlem park.