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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

Mission and Funding

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PBS Digital Studios

PBS has been producing thoughtful programming for diverse audiences since 1970, and since 2012, PBS Digital Studios has been an innovator in digital-first educational programming, constantly exploring new directions to educate audiences about history, science, culture, and the world around them. PBS Digital Studios includes a network of YouTube channels with millions of subscribers and billions of lifetime views.

Emperor penguins and baby penguins gather in a large group in an icy environment.

Two dolphins swim next to each other under clear, blue water.

Close up on an Elephant's face looking at us.

Fox stands in a tall, grassy area.

Dog sits in a field next to a circular diagram that includes the following skills: Aware, Social, X-factor, Rational, and Ecological.

Sea otter lays on a white surface with a clam and food scraps in front of it.

Lion and two lionesses lay together in a dry grassy field.

Close up on a white rat's face as it peeks its head out of a tube.

Closeup of a hand holding a wooden tool while carving lines of Lapita inspired patterns into the rim of a moist clay plate. Red and gold clothing in background. Title bar reads, "Pottery-making Fiji-style. Oasis T, V. 2012."

Black and white photo of a family sitting in a makeshift tent. Individual in front leans on the back of a rocking chair. Woman holding a baby sits at the edge of the tent next to 2 young children in tattered clothing.

Closeup of a book open to an image of a pen that looks like a twig with gold rings at 1 end. Title bar reads, "Andrei Drozdov."

Still life painting of a pale green apple, a roll, a butter knife, and fluted glass vase resting on a beige surface. Title bar reads, "Giorgio Morandi, 1890 to 1964. Natura Morta. Oil on canvas, 1920."

Man wearing glasses looks at camera with eyebrows slightly raised. He sits in front of crowded bookshelves.

Woman looks at camera and clasps hands at waist. She stands between a row of tables and a counter arranged with office supplies. Title bar reads, "What Masks Do You Wear?

4 collaged rectangles arranged in a row. Each is composed of colorful torn paper with glimpses of text.

Wide view of an old apartment building painted with vibrant murals. Title bar reads, "Brandon Odum, Exhibit Be. 2014 to 2015. New Orleans."

Woman in a purple sweater looks at camera and smiles with clenched teeth. She stands in a room with eclectic artwork and bookshelves in the background.

Bearded man gestures with arms bent up parallel to one another as he speaks. He sits in a room with toys on shelves and artwork on walls.

Closeup of text, some faded and some bold. Bold text reads, "Everything suddenly honks. It is 12, 40 of a Thursday. Neon in daylight is a."

Woman wearing glasses looks at camera as she speaks. A grid of artwork forms the backdrop.