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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

Media Center

Television Access

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

Privacy and TOS

Privacy Statement

Terms of Service

Accessibility Policy

Mission and Funding

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Cylindrical metal duct with a control box and large valve control. Sign on wall says Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Caption: We have a tunnel that will reach Mach 3 on a small scale.

Closeup on a beehive with worker bees entering and exiting through the opening at the bottom.

Woman seated in an office desk chair faces camera like she is in an interview. Text on image reads, "Classes."

Man wearing glasses speaks towards camera in an indoor setting. Table with laptop and printer are behind him.

Woman wearing a white t-shirt and dark pants stands next to a red car with white car waiting behind it in an automobile assembly line. Her head is turned and her mouth is in a wide smile as she extends her arm to reach for something out of view.

Man wearing a white collared shirt, wearing glasses looks forward and to the side while speaking.

Two-line graphs. One with sharp, jagged, closely spaced peaks and valleys, the other with more gently increasing and decreasing peaks and valleys. Caption: This information is captured by the BioRadio

Woman wearing glasses and business attire sits in an office chair behind a desk, looking just off camera like she is in an interview.

Two people wearing hard hats walking on a concrete path through an infrastructure of intricate tubing and walkways. Caption: A chemical engineer figures out a way to scale that process up

Computer graphic representation of clusters double helix DNA strands. Caption: We use synthetic DNA to reprogram living cells.

Seen from above, a large cylindrical tube with a hatch in a pit surrounded by wooden supports and metal bars. Caption: model representations of sewer and river systems.

Man wearing glasses and a dark collared shirt looks forward and to the side while speaking. A suit jacket hangs on a bar behind him.

Man wears a dark green zip-up jacket and glasses. His mouth is open in mid-speech as he looks away from the camera and to the side. He is in a mechanic's shop with commercial truck wheel drums hanging on stands behind him.

A multi-story office building has sections of brick, glass and metal walls extending outward from the building center with lifts and trucks parked outside.

Man wearing jeans and a white sleeveless t-shirt uses a pipe cutter on a P, V, C pipe. The wall next to him has an open access panel exposing P, V, C piping that is under installation.

Woman with long brown hair sits and speaks while people behind her cut hair on mannequin heads in a salon setting.

Closeup on a plate of roasted chicken, rice with vegetables, and a tossed green salad.

Man wearing a black medical scrub top and white undershirt tee parts lips in mid-speech. He is in a dental examination room and stands in front of a dental chair with an examination light. Text on image reads, "For more information, visit www.owens.edu."