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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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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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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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Still image from: What's Wild: Marshland Crabs

Still image from: What's Wild: Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

Still image from: What's Wild: Uncovering the Hidden Work of Mushrooms in SC

Still image from: What's Wild: Webster's Salamander

White foaming waves crash on a rocky shore. Caption: Their activity ebbs and flows with the tides.

A tall evergreen tree as seen from below. Caption: You can grow all the trees you need.

Still image from: Why Should I Care? Invasive Species--Plants

Still image from: Why Should I Care? Pollinators

Black and white bird with a red spot on its head holds a seed while standing on a branch. Caption: The trees are used as a storehouse for a quick meal.

A herd of bison with a few young ones on a brown, grassy plain. Caption: A year later, the first offspring were born--

Aerial view of an industrial plant emitting pollution. Caption: and impacted by oil and gas exploration and activities.

Sand beach dotted with rocks. Caption: His next expedition is down to the shore to observe

Adult primate with a baby on its back swinging from the trees. Caption: The animals depend on the plants to survive,

Person walking in front of an oxen pulling a cart through a forest. Caption: Unwittingly, we may be consuming Borneo to death.

Closeup of ants swarming over a beetle. Caption: And they also kill each other in battles over turf.

Green plant growing underwater. Caption: Hydrilla is an invasive species on a path of destruction.

A pair of white bird with black head and back and an orange beak sit in on a mossy rock. Caption: returning to land in the spring to rear a single chick.

Closeup of a jaguar. Caption: Jaguars need wilderness, safe territory,

Items such as broken lighters, bottle caps, plastic pieces, and other unidentifiable debris arranged in a circle. Caption: (female) I took everything in Shed Bird's stomach and arranged it.

A horse with patchy fur, visible ribs, and a short mane grazing in a field. Caption: They were severely emaciated and debilitated

Closeup of a partially translucent frog on a leaf. Caption: We need to understand a lot more about biodiversity.

Many iguanas sunning themselves on rock outcroppings next to the ocean. Caption: Some of the hatchlings stay together

Microscopic view of an oval-shaped organism. Caption: But for the microbes that live here,

A nutria crouching in a pile of brush and eating. Caption: and they're wreaking environmental havoc.

A kayak is about to go over a small waterfall on a river lined by lush greenery. Caption: The kayaking is phenomenal.

People walking through green bushes with a building in the background. Caption: (female) this is a place where wildlife reigns.

A sloth hangs from a tree. Caption: They survive by moving slowly and sleeping a lot,

A yellowish-green bird sits on a branch surrounded by foliage. Caption: Suddenly, these birds are being found in the lowland forest

Person kneeling next to a covered cage. Caption: they're after the black-footed rock-wallaby, or warru--

A flat, spotted fish blends in almost perfectly with the ocean floor. Caption: As a result, the flounder population is recovering.

Closeup of a large black spider covered in light brown hair. Caption: (male narrator) For many, tarantulas inspire fear.

Still image from: Wildcats for Kids

Still image from: Wish You Were Here: A Century of Missouri State Parks

Still image from: Wombats for Kids

Artist sits in front of a painting that depicts a globe split in two. The right side shows an industrial scene with smoke pluming from stacks. On the left, an eagle flies in front of a mountain while orca whales swim in the waters beneath.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Awesome Hawaii

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Carolinas

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Croatia

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Deserts

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth Communication

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth Weather

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Ecosystems

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Glacier National Park

Ominous shark swims amongst a school of fish in the ocean.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Insects

Person holds the invasive black and white tegu lizard up in a presentation.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Microscience

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: National Parks

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Nature's Classroom

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Noah's Ark

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Ocean Exploration

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Plants

Wide river with white rapids rushes away from us, lined by green bushes.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Trees

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Yosemite

A bear in a cage with hay on the back of a trailer. Caption: Come on! Let's go!