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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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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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Ants climbing on the shoots of grass.

A butterfly with its wing spread out and sitting on a flower.

A locust chews on a shoot of grass.

A coastal region on the geographic map of West America is shown as the background. A region on the map of America is highlighted. Caption: Monterey Bay California. Latitude, 36.80 degrees North. Longitude, 122.00 degrees West. Average Rainfall, 480 millimeters. Sea Temperature, 11 to 15 degrees Celsius.

A coastal region of South West Africa. Caption: Africa Namib Desert. Latitude, 19 degrees 23 minutes South. Longitude, 12 degrees 53 minutes East. Midday Dune Temperature, 50 degrees Celsius. Average Rainfall, 2 to 85 millimeters.

An area on the map of Africa is highlighted, with a group of deer running in the background. Caption: Okavango Botswana. Latitude, 19 degrees to 20 degrees. Longitude, 22 degrees to 23 degrees East. Average rainfall, 450 millimeters. Temperature range, 21 degrees to 38 degrees Celsius.

An area on the map of Scotland is highlighted, and a mountain range with snow covered peaks are depicted in the background. Caption: Scottish Highlands. Latitude, 57 degrees North. Longitude, 4 degrees West. Average rainfall, 3000 millimeters. Temperature range, minus 2 degrees Celsius.

A hilly forest region of East Africa. Caption: Serengeti Tanzania. Latitude, 2 degrees 43 minutes South. Longitude, 34 degrees 85 minutes East. Average Rainfall, 700 millimeters. Temperature range, 15 to 28 degrees Celsius.

An ice covered region. Caption: Svalbard Norway. Latitude, 74 degrees to 81 degrees North. Longitude, 10 degrees to 35 degrees East. Average W I.

A large number of fishes are swimming in the deep sea. Caption: Deep Sea. Extent, 42% of the earth’s surface. Average depth, 4000 meters. Temperature range, minus 1.9 to 4 degrees Celsius.

A photo depicts a region with a large number of trees and small water pockets. Fog rises from the earth.

3D rendering of a neuron, resembling a ball of plant roots or a rhizome. Text reads, "Brain Basics."

Black-and-white illustration of a side-view X-ray of a human's head. The brain is composed of pink, green, and purple fiber-like masses forming separate structures. Text reads, "Mapping the Brain."

Person uses tweezers to hold up a tiny glowing computer part in front of their face which is visible in the blurred background. Text reads, Brains, Computers, and Technology.

Digital illustration of five stages of a brain's growth, from a small, smooth lump into a bigger shaped organ with bulges, grooves, and fissures. Text reads, "The Developing Brain."

Oval-shaped photo of a brightly lit city street full of people sitting at tables, standing, and in motion. Behind this, a black and white digital rendering of neurons and networks. Text reads, "The Thinking and Social Brain."

Illustration of the inner ear showing the stirrup bone and other structures. Caption: lie the fluid-filled cavities of the inner ear.

Earth spinning on its orbit, the equator of earth is tilted downward and eastward.

A photo depicts the earth spinning in its orbit, where the equator and tropic of cancer are highlighted. Caption: June

Earth spinning on its orbit, the tilt of earth's central axis along the vertical axis is highlighted.