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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.

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Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.

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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, used worldwide.
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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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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.

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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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Split screen. The left is a white background with blue text that reads, "Solve for x. 3 times 2 over 3, X equals 4." To the right, a woman works through the problem using a screen in front of her. Caption. Put my multiplication symbol and a 3.

Aerial side view of 2 hands touching a computer screen displaying a white screen with a long form algebra problem written in blue. Caption. That's how we represent that solution.

Woman with dark hair wearing a gray shirt stand at a podium in front of an illuminated blue and purple background. She holds a pen in her right hand while looking down at a screen in front of her.

Aerial side view of 2 hands touching a computer screen displaying a math word problem involving tickets sold for a high school sporting event. Some parts of the problem are highlighted yellow.

Split screen. The left is a white background with a solved polynomial math equation in blue. To the right, a woman works through the problem using a screen in front of her. Caption. Let's look at this last one.

Split screen. The left is a white background with a chart with 2 rows and 3 columns labeled, "Verbal, Explanation, Example." The boxes are filled in with a combination of typed and handwritten text. To the right, a woman works through the problem using a screen in front of her.

White background with an X,Y axis with gray grid lines and a blue line sloping downward from left to write. Blue text in the top right reads, "Write the equation of the line." Caption. The Y intercept and count off that slope.

Young girls and boys working on individual assignments at shared desks in a classroom setting.

An illustration of a planet.

A satellite image of a planet surface. One of the four craters is labeled, Kandinsky.

Person against a backdrop of the moon, earth, and an American flag. Caption: (female narrator) Alan Shephard, the first American in space,

Still image from: World Explorers: Alan Shepard (Spanish)

Painting of explorer Amerigo Vespucci holding a large golden drawing compass on a map on a wood table. An illustration of a ship with a dark sky and a compass rose are in the background. Caption. Securing a position as a mapmaker and astronomer.

Still image from: World Explorers: Amerigo Vespucci (Spanish)

Painting of Christopher Columbus wearing a triangle hat and a large, dark cloak on the left. He is superimposed over a map of the globe drawn in maroon. Caption. Many Americans honor the feats of Christopher Columbus.

Still image from: World Explorers: Christopher Columbus (Spanish)

Sepia-tone sketch of white-haired Daniel Boone holding a shotgun on his left while looking right, superimposed over a photo of tree-covered hills on a foggy day. Caption. Known as 'The Great Pathfinder.'

Still image from: World Explorers: Daniel Boone (Spanish)

Still image from: World Explorers: Eric the Red & Leif Ericson (Spanish)

Dark gray statues of vikings, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson, superimposed over a parchment-colored old-style map of Western Europe, Iceland, and Greenland. Caption. Erik the Red and his son, Leif Erikson.