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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, used worldwide.
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Help Center

Learn how to apply for membership, find and view accessible media, and use DCMP's teaching tools.
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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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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 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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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

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YouTube Audio Description

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Men in hazmat suits and firemen's uniforms sort through a pile of debris. Caption. The Explosives Unit is searching the wreckage.

$Two people wearing gloves and examining human bones. Caption: no bones were fractured.$

Black teenagers in white shirts, green bowties and cumberbands carrying a casket. Caption. Tommer as narrator. And when you're silent, you see what happens.

A man in a white lab coat looking into a microscope. Caption: Examination back in the lab can confirm the species of fern.

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Crowded hallway of walking teenage boys and girls. Caption. If kids talk about suicide or violence or things like that.

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Woman and man in taekwondo outfits with black belts. Caption. We want to emphasize the weapons you always have.

Closeup of woman with short brown hair, red lipstick, hoop earrings, and a white collared shirt talking in front of several papers hanging from a cork board. Caption. School, or their parents.

Black and white surveillance frame of a person wearing dark clothes and a backpack reaching down to open a door. Caption. To see through smoke and darkness.

Black man wearing a prison uniform stands in front of a group of teenagers seated and directing their attention towards him.

Two people walking down a hallway. Caption: we chat with DNA scientist Bruce Jackson,

2 women, 1 standing and 1 sitting, face each other in conversation. Caption. About who we brought in as interpreters.

Closeup of woman, bent forward and speaking down at camera. Caption. We'll have fun. Come with me.

Teenage girl sits at a newsroom desk as she looks and speaks to camera. A digital backdrop behind her has T, V news monitors with text on screen that reads, "Hooplaha. Life with a Smile." Text below her reads, "Coming up. Special Friendships."

Man in a lab coat and tie looks past camera and parts lips as he speaks. He stands in the hallway of a medical building.

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