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Standards-aligned videos with high-quality captions and audio description.

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Accessibility Information

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DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, used worldwide.
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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 are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
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These self-paced, online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note-taking, and learning about audio description.

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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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Illustration of a pre-teen boy. Caption: Soon there will be even more changes in your body.

Still image from: A Boy's Guide To Growing Up (Spanish)

Illustration of the head and shoulders of two boys. Caption: Let's look at how your body changes as you grow up.

Still image from: A Boy's Guide To Puberty And Personal Safety (Spanish)

Illustration of a pre-teen girl. Caption: You will begin to grow from a girl into a young woman.

Still image from: A Girl's Guide To Growing Up (Spanish)

Illustration of a young woman with her hands in front of her, palms forward saying, "NO!". Caption: Tell an adult.

Still image from: A Girl's Guide To Puberty And Personal Safety (Spanish)

Girl and boy look at each other, holding up an elbow to their face, 3 senior men playing instruments behind them. Caption. Ah choo!

Person speaking. Caption: Nanoparticles have been used in sunscreens

Cartoon of children eating lunch at a bar table. Caption. When Nina blew her nose at the table.

Color illustration. Boy grasps top of his red curly hair. Caption. What in the heck were they doing up there?

Closeup of a young woman's face as she speaks, looking slightly off camera. Caption. To keep your skin healthy, clean, and prevent the acne.

Cartoon. Colored paint cans and rubber bands on a table in front of a mirror. Caption. Stanley had two cans of Halloween hair spray.

Split image of a toilet and concrete lined channels of dirty running water. Caption: Goes into the sewers, comes here.

Woman wearing a red and white jersey speaks into a microphone looking off camera like she is being interviewed for a news story. Behind her, houses are decorated with illuminated Christmas lights.

Red and green text reads "Don't be Gross," with green slime bursting from the sides.

Three-way split screen shows the cartoon eyes of a blue, red, and green character, all looking determined.

Red and green text reads, "Don't be Gross. Wash your hands before you eat." with green slime bursting from the sides.

Dirty outside cartoon lunch table with a can of soda and a paper bag on it. A hand reaches into the paper bag.

Cartoon teacher stands at his desk with papers in his hands. He looks over at the corner of his desk in shock as a green slime oozes over the side of his desk.

Blue boy and a pink girl cartoon characters wearing karate uniforms stand in fighting poses with large bonsai trees behind them. There are blue and pink clouds at their feet.

Black screen.

Man wearing earbuds stands in front of the men’s bathroom, looking at us with a confused expression.

Life-size Goofy character carries a tray of vegetables next to a Black woman wearing a light blue shirt and name tag. Caption. Second, you should brush your teeth after.

Man pushes a canoe out into the water from the beach. Person seated in the front paddles out. Caption. We're going to answer these questions and others.

Young boy standing at a drinking fountain, holding a hand up to cover his mouth. Caption. Then when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth.

Dental assistant wearing a surgical mask and latex gloves next to a tray with tools and supplies for teeth cleaning. Next to her, a person lies back in a dental chair in an office setting. Caption. We work in a dental office alongside dentists.

2 red lines branch off from a red dot at the top connecting to red dots that continue to branch off in twos 5 times to form a crown-shaped contagion.

Aerial view of man in glasses looking up at camera as he wipes his hands with a paper towel next to kitchen sink.

Still image from: Lab Six: Oral Health (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Oral Health II (Spanish)

Boy with blond hair looks down and wipes his cheek with a red cloth. A red and yellow cartoon T, V frames the video. Music note icon indicates music is playing.

Animated puppet, Marvie smiles and holds a stuffed elephant in a darkened bedroom with glow-in-the-dark stars. Caption. What's your bedtime routine?

Cartoon shows four pairs of hands in different skin tones all in a circle in front of a background that has illustrations of blue hands holding different numbers of fingers up.

Illustration of people crouching to look at water coming out of a pipe after the water has been processed. Caption: The station has almost totally cleaned the water.

Woman holds a white plastic cleaning brush and bottle of blue dishwashing liquid.

Color illustration. Purple monster smiles to reveal missing tooth. Holds up tooth in hand. Title card reads, "Epic originals! Scaredy Monster Loses a Tooth. Narrated by Rachel Jacobs. Animation by Ghostbot."

Map of the world with central and southern Africa highlighted. Arrows indicate movement from there to all areas of the globe. Caption: after the first homo sapiens left Africa 100,00 years ago.

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do We Brush Our Teeth?

Still image from: SciShow: Are Hand Dryers Sanitary

Color illustration in a picture book. Bald man in royal clothing stands while girl in pink dress paints his portrait on an easel. In the next image, girl in torn pink dress leaps through a castle setting. Story text appears on screen.

Animation of a boy with a puzzled look standing outdoors next to a bicycle. Caption. Dirt can make you sick?

Person getting a haircut. Spanish captions.

Woman smiling downward while she adjusts a dental light. Caption. This light helps me look at all your teeth.

Woman in a lab coat looks towards boy in dentist's chair. Spanish caption. Todos los dientes, para ver si hay uno flojo.

Closeup of Abraham Lincoln's young son, William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln. A black and white photo of the child with a black star in the lower left corner appears next to text which provides William's biography.

A teenage boy is studying at a table covered with textbooks, stacks of books, and a printer. He points his index finger at text in an open textbook. The banner has text that reads, "Make the Grade. Study Tips."

Side angle of a woman holding up a newborn baby. Spanish caption. Para sostener la cabeza y nuca.

Two puppets, one in a hazmat suit. Spanish captions.

Pre-teen boy seated on ground in front of a drum set. Spanish caption. Eso quiere decir bañarse todos los días.