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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.

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, used worldwide.
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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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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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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.

Man stands in front of a black background as he talks to us.

A bone is placed before a wolf, who staring vigilantly at fire.

View from space of a prehistoric earth that is mainly covered in land and slim streams of water in between the two land formations.

Woman stands in front of a black background as she talks to us. An image next to her shows a person crouching next to a small fire as they reach a big stick into the flames.

Illustrated copepods of different colors, shapes, and sizes. Text reads, “Copepods.”

Lots of Flypaper Traps with a bug stuck on one of them. Text reads, “Flypaper Traps, video courtesy of Deep Look - KQED. From their video ‘Cape Sundews Trap Bugs in A Sticky Situation.'”

Slow moving current passes by a grouping of rocks partially covered with moss.

An illustration depicts a pair of reptile like dinosaurs running in a desert. Image credit: Ceri Thomas.

Two rat like creatures are seen fighting. Caption: Illustration by Velizar Simeonovski, copyright Darin Croft. From horned armadillos and rafting monkeys: The fascinating fossil mammals of South America.

Bright neon green waves crash to shore with text below that reads, "Harmful Algal Blooms."

A large number of eggs laid in water has a thick layer of jelly.

Computer rendering of a walrus perched on the shore, rearing is head back with mouth open, showing 4 long, thick teeth protruding from its gums on the top and bottom.

Digital graphic of the carbon cycle shows a factory producing fossil fuels that go into the air, and then into the soil, which goes into the water, and into the sediment under the water. Arrows move in a circle to show how the cycle goes on and on. Text reads, “Carbon Cycle.”

A cat.

Man stands in front of a black backdrop as he talks to us.

Dickinsonia fossil from the Ediacaran that is symmetrical and round with rib-like segments that are radially inclined towards the wide end from a central ridge.

A geographical representation of Mediterranean sea, which is enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. Caption: M S C recreation by Aaron Micallef, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Angelo Camerlenghi, University of Malta, Medsalt.

Male lion roars at us.

An illustration depicts a theropod dinosaur, looking into a nest with eggs and newborn dinosaurs.

Woman stands in front of a black backdrop and talks to us like she's doing an interview.