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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.
Captioning Key
Description key

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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Services

Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

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Television Access

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

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Mission and Funding

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TMW Media Group

Founded in 1989, TMW Media is one of the leading creators, developers and distributors of educational video content for classrooms, higher learning institutions, libraries, home schoolers and consumers.

Portrait painting of a young Beethoven. Text reads, “Beethoven.”

Father and son float in a peaceful lake, fishing together in a canoe.

A large cylindrical machine set into the floor with various equipment attached to the round openings at either end. A walkway surrounds the mass of equipment. Caption: Gas turbines earn their excellent worldwide reputation.

Forest of large, towering trees. Caption: Well, redwood trees live for thousands of years,

White background with text in the foreground that reads, “Global English, Lesson One.”

World map with a bright light glowing below the text. Text reads, “Global English, Lesson two.”

Pink and blue background with text in the foreground that reads, “Sentences Questions.”

World map with a bright light glowing below the text. Text reads, “Global English, Lesson Five.”

World map with a bright light glowing below the text. Text reads, “Global English, Lesson Six.”

Young girl who is holding a stuffed animal and sobbing leans into a woman who appears to be hugging and consoling her.

Black and white chiaroscuro closeup photo of a man leaning his forehead on 1 hand with a furrowed brow.

Silhouette of a house at night illuminated from within with a backdrop of thousands of stars. Text above image reads, "The Chance of Being Positive."

Wide shot of green grassy hills below a bright blue partly cloudy sky.

Antarctica landscape with tents poking up through snow and an airplane taking off in distance. Caption. Heather as narrator. Camp is much less quiet when the wind blows.

More than a dozen women, wearing flowing yellow pants and sparkling tops, perform in three coordinated columns on a golden stage in front of a flame-edged arched backdrop. The women on the left perch bend to the left with their arms over their heads, while the women on the right do the same in the other direction, and the women in the middle sit up with their arms up at different angles.

Dark stage with dancers dressed in lilac and blue garments in a circular formation, their long blue and lilac sleeves billowing high up in the air.

Line of women wearing white collared shirts underneath black dresses that are ornately adorned with bright neon threads, streamers, pompoms, and beads, and wearing hats decorated with silver and neon baubles and feathers.

Four women stand in a circle looking down to the ground at us. The women wear sloping gold helmet-crowns and festive dresses layered with shiny pink, gold, and green triangle shapes, green bodices, and gold collars.