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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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U.S. Department of Education Funding for Accessible Media

The ED funds a Media Center grant to provide accessible, educational media to children with disabilities, as well as three Television Access grants. Grants are managed by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
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Educational Media Center

DCMP creates and streams accessible educational media to serve 7.5 million students, develops new technologies, and more through this ED grant. This includes the creation of high-quality captioning, audio description, and American Sign Language interpretation.

Television Access Grants

These grants support projects that add audio description and sign language interpretation to broadcast content. Bridge Multimedia, Dicapta, and DCMP operate OSEP-funded projects that develop high-quality audio description and ASL which align with educational standards to aid learning.
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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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Art Education

Within Arts

Woman holds up a spiral notebook as she draws cartoon characters on it with a sharpie.

Woman talks to Nate at an art museum. Vincent Van Gogh's painting, "Starry Night," is on the wall between them. Caption. "And we'll talk about him."

Young man wearing a shoulder bag rides a bicycle down a residential street.

Closeup of woman with brown hair, glasses, and a black turtleneck using her hands and talking in front of a black wall with black and white art.

Woman with dark hair in a bun and a purple shirt reaches up to look through a wire drawer in a stack of wire drawers full of different types of fabric. Quilting patterns are hung on the white wall behind her.

Painted portrait of a woman with bright red hair against a gray background looking pensively at something in the distance while turning her neck slightly to the left.

4 color illustrations next to each other. One image is large with a mesa in background. The other 3 are stacked vertically on right. 2 of the 3 vertical images portray buildings. The third shows very top of painting.

Gilded art image of a man walking along a stream wearing a mask over his face. Birds and tree branches fill the image. Caption. Were thinking about some of the same ideas.

Artist Tom Harold wears a gray goatee and gray shirt while conversing with Nate in a busy art studio. Caption. "Do tons of problem-solving every day, all day long."

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Nate waves his hands as he talks with Edvard Munch's painting called "The Scream" enlarged behind him. Caption. "Yeah, you see yellows, yellow-oranges, and reds."

Man with brown mustache in black graphic t-shirt and red-and-black trucker hat sits in front of a room with a white sewing machine and several green shirts with skulls on hangers. Caption. I am Ben Venom.

Man wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and black baseball cap sits in front of an unfinished room with large paintings in various states of finish leaning against the wall behind him. A low table with painting supplies is to his rear right.

Nate talks in front of a blackboard background. A sign that reads, "No Guns Allowed," and a sepia-tone photo of a man appear on screen next to him. Caption. "Was trying to find non-violent ways."

Man wearing a black shirt speaks to us as he stands in front of a backdrop swirling with pink and purple paint. A question mark floats between a paint tray and tube beside him.

Digital illustration of a man gesturing toward a photo of the artist Basquiat as he sits casually on a stool with his head tilted to the side.

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Person scoops a white substance from a measuring cup into an ice cube tray. Next to the ice cube tray are popsicle sticks, red and blue food dye, paper, and paint brushes.

From above, we see a person reaching for an empty ice cube tray, which is sitting on the counter with labeled ingredients and tools to make homemade watercolors. Among the items are an empty bowl, a beaker of vinegar, a beaker of corn syrup, a beaker of baking soda, a beaker of corn starch, a beaker with craft sticks and paintbrushes, a whisk, and three bottles of food coloring.

From above, we see a person lay a piece of paper over a casserole dish full of multi-colored swirls of shaving cream.

Person reaches into a beaker full of sparkly pink and white sand next to a can of baking powder and several measuring cups.

Man kneels in the grass holding a hose with a white tube attached to the end. In front of him is a man wearing a protective suit with a large canvas splattered with paint.

Man sitting at a desk speaks to us. Next to him is the word, “collage.”

Person draws shapes with a marker on a big white piece of paper, including a circle, triangle, cylinder, rectangle, and square.

From above, we see a person's hands open over a sketchbook that displays a line drawing of two women.

Man standing at a desk in an art studio speaks to us next to text that reads, “Watercolors.”