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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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Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.

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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.

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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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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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Within Language Arts

Still image from: Reading Buddies: The U_E Silent E Badge (Season 2; Episode 19)

Still image from: Reading Buddies: The UR Vowel + R Badge (Season 3; Episode 18)

Still image from: Reading Buddies: The X Consonant Badge (Season 2; Episode 5)

Still image from: Reading Buddies: The Y Consonant Badge (Season 2; Episode 9)

Still image from: Reading Buddies: The Z Consonant Badge (Season 2; Episode 7)

Still image from: Reading Buddies: The Z/S Buddy Badge (Season 2; Episode 20)

Still image from: Reading Buddies: What's the /T/ea? (Season 1; Episode 2)

Slide shows orange text on a pale yellow background that reads, "Reading Comprehension."

Man holds a child on his lap as they read from a book in front of them. Spanish caption. Araya. Los niños disfrutan de compartir libros.

Book cover shows an illustration of a white and orange cat holding a teacup near a table with another teacup on it. A paper airplane swirls through the air. Text reads, "Tea with Oliver. By Mika Song."

Still image from: Sarah & Duck: Plate Fog

Woman is signing in front of an image of a woman and 2 children holding up objects they're making out of clay. Text on image reads, "Today is Thursday. On Thursday I go to art class."

Closeup of a cartoon purple cat wearing a yellow hat and black over-the-head headphones. Black antennae from aliens are visible on either side of the cat. Caption. Which you can usually find by sounding the word out.

Cartoon of a woman facing camera speaking. She stands next to and points to text on a banner that reads, "Story elements for kids. What is a character? Teaching without frills." A golden retriever sits across from the woman by the banner.

Still image from: StoryMakers With Will Hillenbrand ("Mighty Reader" and "The Reading Riddle")

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Consonants #1

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Consonants #2

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Let's Learn About Plants and Segmenting Sounds Into Words

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Letters & Sounds--Rhyming Words

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Main Characters & Math

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Months of the Year, Substitute Letters to Make New Words

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Problem, Solution, and Basic Addition #2

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Read, Move, Count, and Explore!

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Rhyming & Syllables

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Rhyming and Isolating Words

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Rhyming Words

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Shapes, Letters, Animals, and More!

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Short Vowels #1

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Short Vowels #2

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Sight Word Mapping #2 (PreK-K Letters & Sounds)

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Sight Word Mapping #3 (PreK-K Letters & Sounds)

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Syllables in Words and Days of the Week

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2012)

Red locomotive sits in a grassy field next to a wooden rail fence.

Cartoon of a sandy beach in front of palm trees. A large purple clam shell on the beach is slightly open, and a bright green oval has green light shooting out of it. Caption with elongated word. Zap.

Color illustration. Vignettes of children doing various hobbies such as looking through a magnifying glass at an ant farm, examining bugs, and counting coins.

Cartoon of the side of Max the Train driving along the tracks, surrounded by bright purple and green pillars.

Slide shows a white rectangle between a green and gray background highlights text that reads, "Verbs for Kids."

Closeup of a video game. Text that says Prince of Sun has spoken appears on the screen. Caption. Have to choose between T,V and reading.

Sparks float above an open book on a black background. Text reads, "What is Context?"

Labeled pictures provide visuals for a sentence. Boxes with words appear below.

Cartoon of horse, bear, lion, giraffe, ram, monkey, and pig running. Caption. In a flash, every beast in the zoo was stampeding.

C, G, I cartoon of a hallway with red carpet. The right side is lined with bookshelves filled with colorful books, the left side has a fireplace with a fire, a few taxidermy animal heads above, and 2 suits of armor holding books on either side.