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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, 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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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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Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

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We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

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Amoeba Sisters

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Alleles and Genes."

Antivirals. A tablet of medication, an IV bag, and a vial with syringe.

Digital illustration of a box with animals poking out. A flower, a leaf and 2 worms float around it. Box reads, "Heterotrophs. Hetero equals 'other.' Troph equals 'nourishment.' "

Split image showing cartoon characters with shields; breaking an object with a hammer; next to an apple core; in a container of yogurt; and fixing nitrogen atoms to the roots of a plant.

Cartoon of pink and purple amoebas smiling and gesturing with their hands. Title card reads, "Biological Levels."

Two cartoon characters. Biomagnification.

Cartoon of pink and purple amoebas smiling and gesturing with their hands. Title card reads, "Biomolecules."

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Blood Types and Punnett Squares." And in parentheses, "Multiple Alleles."

Two cartoon characters. Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles.

An illustration illustrates the difference between scientific theory and scientific law. Caption: Scientific theory, can explain why. Scientific law, can describe what.

Cartoon of a purple amoeba holding a paintbrush and gesturing toward a chalkboard that reads, "Cell Transport." Pink amoeba smiles and gestures toward the chalkboard from the opposite side.

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Cellular Respiration."

The Amoeba sisters present the heading, characteristics of life, with a D N A strand extending from left to right, below it.

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Chromosome Numbers During Cell Division."

Cartoon of a pink amoeba leaning to the side with its mouth open wide. Title card reads, "Codons."

Cartoon of a pink amoeba smiling and gesturing toward a title card that reads, "Dichotomous Keys with Scientific Names." Purple amoeba with surprised expression glances toward the title card from the opposite side.