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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

Projects

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Television Access

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

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Privacy Statement

Terms of Service

Accessibility Policy

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Nurse smiles and shakes the hand of a man who is seated on an exam table in a medical office setting. Caption. We order tests for patients, we do exams.

Ophthalmologist positions a phoropter over a person's eyes in a medical office setting. Caption. I can also perform surgeries in a hospital.

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Wide shot of a swather moves towards camera through a field of grain. Caption. We inspect food from all across the world.

Over the shoulder shot of a man working on a laptop computer, projecting an image of a P, D, F. Caption. Here, we study products and brands.

Shadowy closeup of 2 forearms placing a stone at the corner of a structure. Caption. Which is stuck on to the block with mortar and a trowel.

Overhead view of a man writing on a log sheet. Also on the desk, a landline phone and computer mouse. Caption. I translate mostly legal documents.

Digital rendering. Aerial view of an intersection flanked by modern buildings, populated with pedestrians, and scattered with cars. Caption. We often use 3D modeling and computer-based software."

2 side-by-side canoes on the water. A man with a video camera gives a thumbs up to camera. His camera is pointed at a man rowing. In the other canoe, 3 men seated and 1 playing the guitar. Caption. A video producer is kind of like a storyteller.

2 women in suits sit at a table next to each other. One shares a brochure and parts her lips in mid-speech. Caption. Our main goal is working with employers.

Side view of an X-ray technician holding up an image of a spine against an X-ray illuminator. Caption. So we take a lot of imaging of patients' bones.

3 girls sit at an outdoor table with trays of soil while an adult stands at each end. Caption. Youth program directors get to work on teams as well.

Two fish swim underwater through underwater plant life. Caption: I specialize in fish and aquatic life.

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Color illustration of children reading books on top of and around a stack of giant books. Title card reads, "Early readers. 12 to 24 months."

Closeup of hair on the back of a person's head. Another person sits in an armchair in the background, looking toward camera.

Smiling woman stands in front of a fireplace. Her family is seated in front of her and looks up at her in a room with Christmas decorations.