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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.

Teaching Tools

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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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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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
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.
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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Black and white frame shows a man holding the shoulders of a young woman looking back up at him into his eyes. Caption. I was waiting for you.

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Black and white frame of a man standing over an unconscious woman laying down in bed. He touches his hand to a rotary telephone by her side.

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Black and white Portrait of Emile Zola. Text reads, “Emile Zola, 1840-1902.”

Black and white photo of a large, old church and buildings around it. Text reads, “Ibsen’s birthplace.”

Black and white photo of James Joyce standing with his hands in his pockets. Text reads, “James Joyce. 1882-1941.”

Medieval portrait painting of Michel de Montaigne with a round stone building behind it. Text reads, “Michel de Montaigne. 1533-1592.”

Black and white Illustration of Robert Louis Stevenson with a wooden ship behind him. Text reads, “Robert Louis Stevenson. 1850-1894.”

Portrait painting of Sir Walter Scott with a large Scottish castle behind it. Text reads, “Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832.”

Black and white portrait of W.B. Yeats with a cross-shaped tombstone next to it. Text reads, “W.B. Yeats. Poet. 1865-1939.”

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Portrait photo of James Joyce wearing circular glasses, brimmed hat, and a dark suit.

Closeup of a vintage Lippincott's magazine that reads, "This number contains, The Picture of Dorian Gray. By Oscar Wilde. Complete. July, 1890."

Book cover for Angela's Ashes showing a young child leaning against a stone house. Cover reads, "The Number 1 New York Times Bestseller."

Outdoor bronze statue of a man sitting and holding a pencil. Text reads, “Great Poets of the World. English-language Poets 1923 - present.”

Outdoor bronze statue of a man sitting and holding a pencil. Text reads, “Great Poets of the World. Poets of the European Continent.”

Outdoor bronze statue of a man sitting and holding a pencil. Text reads, “Great Poets of the World. Poets of the Middle East and Asia.”

Close up of William Shakespeare’s portrait painting.

Outdoor bronze statue of a man sitting and holding a pencil. Text reads, “Great Poets of the World. Spanish-Language Poets.”

Black and white rendering of 6 serpents intertwined with one another. Caption. Life seems to be a succession of tradeoffs.

Black and white frame of man using a wheelchair and dressed in formal wear while a woman leans on the back of his wheelchair. Suited men are in the background. Caption. Horatio, are you going to allow this vulgarian to browbeat me?

Man wearing farmer's clothing speaks to a woman wearing a helmet and holding a notebook. Caption. I work hard and I'm not wealthy?

Closeup physical map of the northern half of South America. Title bar reads, "The Amazon River has a total length of 4,345 miles." Caption. Dylan as Narrator. This colossal river flows toward the rising sun.

Color illustration of Don Quixote in full armor sitting atop a horse. A woman gazes up at him with hands clasped and pink hearts floating above her head. Spanish caption. Esos señores que no estaban tranquilos.

Man dressed as Zeus speaking to a man seated behind a desk with a microphone. Caption. Dwight, this is my wife, Hera.

Man wears a pirate tricorn hat and coat with a wicked grin on his face. Caption. I'll be saving my gabbing for El Toro.

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Drawing of a mythical face with sinister eyes and open mouth with sharp teeth. Animal pelt hangs in background. Caption. Is of the early explorations and voyages.

Ruins of Greek columns with steps leading up to them. Caption. The one constant through it all in Plato's view.

Color illustration of woman in white stola holding up drapey fabric that displays a star above her head. 3 women in white stolas surround her with arms extended as if gliding through air. Caption. Or any other kind of mythology is.

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Woman gestures with hands and parts lips ias if speaking while standing in front of a stone building. Caption. Mythical creatures, and amazing adventures!

Cartoon of a frowning young man wearing a large crown. 4 insets of various royal figures float above him. Title card reads, "Aragorn." Caption. Making him rightful ruler of the region in Middle-earth.

Colorful spread of a weathered Sanskrit manuscript with ornamental detail. Caption. Female as Narrator. The "gita" is the most philosophical.

Black and white frame of a man in a formal jacket.

Black and white frame of Lon Chaney facing forward in costume as The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the silent movie version.

Black and white frame of Lon Chaney facing forward in costume as The Phantom of the Opera in the silent movie version.

Man in a white suit stands in the middle of a wide green marble staircase. He faces a man in a robe who sits in the foreground. Caption. You have made yourself master of all the arts of understanding.

Woman with wavy red hair parts lips in mid-speech. Caption. Because he sort of opened the door for Africans.

Sophia Loren and teenage girl standing. Sophia cradles the head of the girl. Both have expressions of fear.

Black and white frame of men running down a road and away from a dinosaur. Caption. Narrator. Horror fiction has many subgenres.