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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.
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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, the Captioning Key and Description Key, used worldwide.
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Help Center

Find answers for your questions, including how to apply, locating media, settings for captions, audio description, and ASL, and creating Student Accounts. Help Center
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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 deaf or blind. Full membership is required for most.
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Modules

Modules are selfpaced, 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 deaf and hard of hearing viewers, 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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Sesame Studios

Sesame Studios features the same educational goodness as Sesame Street, but completely different.

Cartoon character standing next to a drawing of an African American man. Caption: I was just reading about Garrett Morgan.

Animated puppet, Marvie, looks at camera and smiles in front of Buckingham Palace. Caption. I heard that guards aren't allowed to laugh or smile.

Cartoon character holding a crayon. Caption: I am going to create my own kind of animal.

Cartoon character standing next to a model with a runway and air traffic control tower. Caption: I created this little model airport

Animated puppet, Marvie smiles and holds up an angry paper robot on a stick. Caption. My mom taught me how to make these cool puppets.

Animated puppet, Marvie smiles with her mouth open wide in a child's colorful bedroom. Caption. It's called "The Flight of the Lady Bug."

Animated puppet, Marvie, smiles and looks sideways at an easel that displays a drawing of a woman labeled, "Ada Lovelace." Caption. I just learned about mathematician, Ada Lovelace.

Animated puppet, Marvie smiles with her mouth open wide and wears a life vest at an indoor water park. Caption. What's your favorite thing to do at the water park?

Animated puppet, Marvie smiles and holds a stuffed elephant in a darkened bedroom with glow-in-the-dark stars. Caption. What's your bedtime routine?

Animated puppet, Marvie smiles and stands in a child's colorful bedroom. Caption. My birthday, my birthday, whoo!"

Animated puppet, Marvie, smiles with a wide open mouth as she stands in a child's colorful bedroom. Caption. My dad and I were just sharing jokes.

Animated puppet, Marvie, smiles as she stands in a child's colorful bedroom. Caption. I learned some jokes and I can't wait.

Animated puppet, Marvie smiles in a colorful room with floating bookshelves, a child's easel, and a window seat. Caption. I wanted to show you the window seat in my room.

Small hand rests next to a yellow spiral-bound book titled, "The Alphabet Book." Blue background is scattered with gold star stickers. Caption. Child as narrator. The Alphabet Book.

A personified potato wears a fedora and opens its mouth as if speaking. The receiver of a rotary phone hovers next to it. Caption. Investigator Tater.

Animation of a personified paper plate and cup looking sideways at a thought bubble with a smiling lion inside. Caption. I have a mane, a nose, and whiskers.

Cartoon of a bright yellow seahorse and a shark swimming in a brightly colored coral reef. Caption: You are so good at hiding in that colorful coral reef!

Orange plastic egg. Caption: Lets see what's in this surprise egg.