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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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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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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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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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Host Chuck Pell, artist, entrepreneur, and futurist, takes viewers on a mind-bending journey to discover future technologies. What will the world look like in 2050? Where will advancements in science, technology, engineering, and math lead?

Students wearing protective eyewear use handheld 3D technology.

We see a crowded street full of people talking, riding motorcycles, and walking in a third-world country.

Futuristic compact teardrop-shaped green vehicle on three wheels drives on the street amongst traffic.

In a dark room, a person walks in front of a row of screens displaying Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Two silver metal cylinders sit side by side, each on top of a piece of foam. One is flawless, the other is riddled with tiny holes.

Realistic rendering of a human heart and its arteries are displayed on a computer screen.

Peering through the helmet of an elaborate space suit, a scientist experiments with magnetic poles.

Inside a simulation room, we see a white vehicle floating slightly above the floor.

Inside a lab, we see a scientist working with a green plant.

Public works facility stands under a cloudy sky.

Disk-shaped robots play soccer on a green table designed like a real soccer field.

Tornado touches down out of a dark stormy sky.

Inside a crowded theater, we look over the heads of hundreds of people towards a lit-up stage.

At a recycling center, two people stand in front of a conveyor belt that transports plastic waste.

Three people in space suits walk through the red desert of a Mars simulation. Each carries a large box on their backs, labeled with a distinct number.

We see a screen displaying rows of DNA sequencing, represented in patterns of waves, numbers, and letters.

Inside a high-tech lab, we see a humanoid robot with a gold helmet, holding out its hand. On its chest are emblems for NASA and GM.

Smiling boy holds a device. Behind him is a row of adults wearing shirts labeled “STEM.”

In a dark room, a student converses with a hologram of a holocaust survivor.

Student sits in a dark room in front of a computer monitor that displays a split screen of technical data.

From above, we see a simple white tennis shoe on a dark-colored carpet.

Futuristic robot sits at a virtual desk, typing at a virtual keyboard in front of an arched screen display.

In a grassy field, we see rows of solar panels angled toward the sun.

At an easel on a desk, we look over the shoulder of a man as he sketches a detailed drawing of a human skull.