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

Frame of woman wearing sleeveless fuchsia pink blouse, speaking. Caption. The best way I can put it is that.

Person tilts their head to 1 side as rows of out of focus blue screens with varying images fill the background. Caption. Or sexually transmitted diseases, are a big problem.

Woman wearing a labcoat and smiling while typing on a laptop computer. She is surrounded by 3 teenagers looking at her screen. Caption. This is pretty cool.

Woman opens mouth mid-speech and holds up 2 fingers with her left hand. Caption. Because all we wanted was a "normal" child.

Closeup of a brown-haired, preteen boy in black shirt with a black necklace talking in front of a blurred background. Caption. It's just like drowning.

Young woman speaks slightly off camera against a black and white abstract cityscape. Caption. Which is eating disorder not otherwise specified.

Closeup of a woman with cropped hair smiling broadly in a household setting. Caption. Surreal. Sound of laughing.

Black-and-white photo of a man wearing a brimmed hat and camouflage pants fishes off of a small concrete pier with boats in the background. Caption. My dad was diagnosed with cancer.

Labeled color illustration of the torso area of the human body, showing lungs, heart, stomach, small intestine. Caption. The long-term complications of diabetes can be devastating.

Audience filled with young people in banked, theater-style seating looks towards the stage as if they are listening to a presentation. Caption. It doesn't matter who you say you are.

2 women stand and face towards camera, 1 uses sign language. Caption. Of course, my doctor tells me that my bones are suffering for having done so little exercise all my life.

Indicator dots in East Asia. Plane icon in North America with indicator dots beneath the plane. Caption: It heads to North America, where it deplanes,

Woman wearing a short sleeve lab coat and name badge speaks just off camera in a medical office setting. Text below her reads, "Swelling of mouth or throat".

Closeup of glass containers of water with visible particulate matter. One is labeled 1/18/16. Caption: "This is safe." That's what they told us.

Close up of a woman with shoulder-length blonde hair wearing a mint green shirt. Caption. All those things can create anxiety about who you are.

Woman seated at a table with arms crossed, slumped slightly forward with a defeated expression. Caption. They had won the battle but not the war.

Woman seated in chair looking at camera and gesturing in sign language, 1 hand bent at the wrist with fingers down, other hand wrapped around fingertips. Caption. A person may be infected for a few weeks to years and never know it.

Woman looks slightly off camera with a furrowed brown and strained expression. Caption. There are over a hundred types of human papillomavirus.

Person slightly squinting. Caption: I hear that, but I probably won't remember the numbers.

Girl smiles and holds up an unfrosted chocolate cupcake. Caption. Which produces energy from this fuel.

Middle-aged man with shoulder length hair turns to speak to a young man seated next to him, Caption. Fine, I'll smoke outside from now on.

Woman looks down at a tablet device in a living room setting. Caption. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic recessive disease.

Teenage boy wearing sunglasses, seated in an office chair in a bedroom setting. A second teenage boy looks at him. Caption. What about going from class to class?

Woman facing camera and gesturing with her hands as she speaks. Caption. They thought emotional problems like anxiety and depression.

Illustration of a dog scratching itself. Caption: Look! Everyone's scratching themselves.

Person sitting at a desk and talking. Taxidermized animals and insects are on the shelves and desk. Caption: The illness the bacteria causes is called leptospirosis.

Closeup of a mosquito with proboscis piercing human skin. Caption: When a mosquito infects a person with dengue virus,

Young boy with dark hair sticks out his tongue in concentration as a woman with long brown hair helps him get his arm out of his brown tee-shirt. Caption. A stroke when I miscarried the twin.

Closeup of a woman with highlighted brown hair and brown eyes in front of a blurred decorative shelf. Caption. That I had envisioned.

Large family of multiple generations posing for a family photo. They wear shades of red, green, brown, and white, and several babies wear Santa hats. Caption. The kids are Cari, Jonathan, Jacob, Lori, Ozzie.

Closeup of smiling toddler with a pink shirt and light brown hair in pigtails holding a baby in a light pink onesie. The baby has a red rash on her cheeks. Caption. And on her body.

Closeup of a woman with blue eyes, brown hair with bangs, and a patterned blue blouse sitting in a wooden chair with a kitchen table in the background. Caption. She wasn't pulling up to standing.

Smiling woman with brown hair and a light blue shirt stands behind a young, smiling boy in a blue plaid shirt. Her hands are on his sides to help him stay steady. Caption. It presents as if he has Angelman syndrome.

Doctor injecting patient in their upper arm. Caption: To prevent the flu, many get the flu vaccine.

Closeup of a tick on a leaf. Lyme Disease. Caption: Ticks are carriers of Lyme disease.

Person in a lab setting with a mostly clear object in their hands. Scissors, wires with leads, and tweezers are on the counter next to them. Caption: We're trying to make a smart Band-Aid

People in an operating theater with a patient on the table. Caption: is implanted surgically and stimulates nerves

Cluster of nerve fibers. Caption: that can image deep into biological tissue,

Woman in front of a computer screen in a dimly lit space. Caption: about impacts of night shift work on a woman's body clock.

Microscopic view of cells. Some are blue and some are larger and red. Caption: on how to make early cancer detection cheaper.

Monarch butterflies on foliage. Caption: In monarchs, they study a parasite.

Person with a virtual reality headset on. Caption: what sorts of stimuli increase sickness or reduce it.

People standing by a muddy stream bed. One person holds something in his hand while another holds a net and looks at the find. Caption: (male narrator) Just another day at the office for biologist Vance Vredenburg.

Person's hand supporting a lobster underwater. Caption: (male) This animal is in the late stages of disease.

Person wearing a cap covered in wires while manipulating controls which guide something on the computer screen in front of them. Caption: how brain circuitry controls how we move.

Test tubes of blood. Caption: use biomarkers: biochemical signatures in blood,

Hands of an elder person. Caption: (narrator) It worked to steady his shaky hands.

Funnel with filter feeding into a receptacle. The fluid in the filter is dark and the filter is dirty. Caption: She's developing fluoride filtering devices

A team of psychologists monitors a human brain. Caption: our minds process what we see.

3D diagram of the human brain. Caption: to break blood-brain barrier,

Person placing an object under a microscope. Caption: for nerves to regrow themselves

3D graphic of a human skull. Red latticework joins the area just under the eye sockets to the top of the jaw. Caption: to one day rebuild faces and lives.

Person wearing a cap with wires and sensors attached while looking at a computer screen. Caption: by studying how brain regions interact,

3D graphic of a mostly cylindrical object with a rotor on top against a backdrop of grass and buildings. Caption: the brain's signal to control the quadcopter.

Person walking on a treadmill with sensors attached to their legs. Caption: (narrator) What if you could alleviate pain by changing your stride?

Diagram of an orange sphere. Part of the shell of the sphere is removed to show the white interior. On the surface of the sphere are small, brightly colored spots. Caption: help protect against the toxins they make.

Clear vial with a glowing pink liquid. Caption: may one day make treating cancer easier

Mosquito on a person's skin. Caption: it would scare them away.

Complex machinery with a platform. Caption: a treatment or vaccine for a particular patient.

Graphic of spherical object with multiple web-like tubular connections. Caption: They can't see any information in their visual world.

Brain activity during cognitive control. Prefrontal cortex of an adult shows significantly more activity in multiple areas as compared to a teen. Caption: that teens could put to use in stressful situations.

Magnified view of a pink, shiny, ridged tube. Caption: These bacteria are resilient to the acidic world

Closeup of a circuit board. Caption: The same platform can be used to monitor the environment.

Digital rendering of a transparent human form displaying internal organs. Caption. Autoimmune diseases affect various organs and body systems.

Diagram showing a lung structure with no mucus reaching into tissue below and the same lung structure covered in mucus unable to do the same thing. Caption: The mucus clogs the lungs and causes infections.

Blue and white grid backdrop overlaid with text that reads, "The dangers of smoking." Caption. Of preventable deaths in the United States.

An animation of a mosquito biting a hand. On screen text, full belly, partial blood me. Caption: and she can lay the next generation of blood suckers.

Closeup of a boy smiling and looking off camera in front of a poster of the respiratory system. Caption. Eh.

Closeup of a man looking past camera as he speaks. Caption. Called a fetal position.

Closeup of microscope lenses, 1 lens shining light on a transparent slide.

Children singing. Caption: Many children live in fear of food.

Computer screen displaying a 3D image of an Eye wire cell mapping. Caption: solving puzzles, to formulating new approaches to science,

Person gesturing to a computer displaying a concentration map of inhaler use in Jefferson county. Caption: can tackle longtime problems in totally new ways.

Magic school bus floating in the air while talking to a child in bed. Caption: And to do that they will go straight to the troubled zone--

A man sleeping with his face covered by his hat. Caption: so little was known about sleep, it was understood as time

A sand covered horseshoe crab. Caption: ARTHROPODS That means they have an exoskeleton,

Closeup of a teenage boy standing in front of a baseball field with players on the field. Caption. I started dipping when I was a freshman.

Woman speaks to camera. Next to her, text reads, "Underlying issues, social, psychological, interpersonal, biological." Caption. A combination of social, psychological, interpersonal.