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Standards-aligned videos with high-quality captions and audio description.

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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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DCMP offers several online courses, including many that offer RID and ACVREP credit. Courses for students are also available.
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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

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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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.
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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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Standing outside are two women; one is wearing butterfly wings and a headband with pink antennas, while the other holds a camera.

Teacher uses a hair clip attached to her arm to hold a ball of yellow clay, demonstrating how a bee carries pollen.

A bird's nest in the ground with a baby bird, beak open. Caption: There will be winners and losers each year.

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Two women sitting at a desk look at us with curiosity. Caption reads: “Facebook Question: Sheila, Indianapolis.”

Two arachnids lying on their backs; one has a small abdomen and the other a large abdomen, displaying the bug’s ability to expand its body when it eats.

Two women wearing headlamps walk out of a dark cave onto mossy rocks.

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Closeup of a sea slug crawling across a bright green plant. The slug has an elongated irregular body that is pale yellow with black tiger stripes.

Closeup of a spiderweb stretching across a gap in what appears to be a wood log.

Closeup of an insect that has a long thin brown body that looks like a twig with short arms branching off. Its head looks like a long bright transparent leaf.

Closeup of a barely visible bee enveloped in a blurry light brown object.

Closeup of an Indian walking stick camouflaged in twigs and leaves. It's brown with a long, thin body and legs.

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View from space of a prehistoric earth that is mainly covered in land and slim streams of water in between the two land formations.

White beetle grub burrows into the earth.

White title text reads, "Smell," against a black background.

Woman with shoulder-length brown hair and lips parted mid-speech. Title card reads, "How Wildfires Become Wildflowers."

Aerial view of a honey bee with two blue arrows connected at one end pointing towards each wing.

Man with his baseball cap backwards, sits crisscross in a grassy garden outside.

Sunlight is shining through in a forest with large number of trees.

Man in glasses and cardigan holds palms together with lips parted in mid-speech. He stands before a green background with white scratches.

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A decaying log on the ocean floor. Caption: The creature feasts on wood that has sunk.

Close-up of a section of sandstone rock from the Red River Gorge. The tan-colored rock is built up by thin layers of sediment, creating a rough, striated texture.

Five or six trucks gather around a herd of buffalo in a wide, dry field, appearing to corral the animals near a fence.

Bird's eye view of dense forests full of leafy tree canopies that border either side of a paved and curved two-lane road on which one car is traveling.

Microscopic image showing web-like structures and C shaped tubular organisms. Caption: (narrator) The soil itself is home to a vast number of tiny microbes,

Person holding a small crab. Caption: could wreak so much havoc in the marshes of Cape Cod?

Dam with no water being released. Caption: (male narrator) Time can take a toll on a dam.

Two small seedlings with their roots in the soil. Caption: optimally suited to survive and thrive.

Microscopic view of tubular structures. Caption: (Saros) They can be early indicators of environmental change.

Person pointing at the ground. Caption: study the ants as an invasive species

People on the deck of a ship, working on various equipment. Caption: probing the oil and gas plumes beneath them.

Earthworm in a person's hand. Caption: are actually invasive species.

Floating metal measurement instrument in deep blue water. Caption: thrown overboard to analyze water samples

Volcano billowing smoke and ash. Caption: (male narrator) Mount St. Helen's eruption in 1980 wasn't a surprise.

People walking on a trail among burned trees. Caption: to study the fire's impact on the ecosystem.

Close up of dark, viscous fluid with small bubbles on the surface. Caption: and we can get those volatiles out of the water.

A large tree with bright green leaves as seen from below. Caption: The forests are working overtime.

A cultivated vegetable garden with inmates and razor-wire-topped chain-link fencing in the background. Caption: science and scientists behind bars as well.

Man releasing water into the air from a pump. Caption: equivalent to a major storm,

People gathered around two troughs filled with water. One person is reaching into the water and two others are handling a small object. Caption: studies mussels' role in their environment.

A rapidly moving river with trees on the bank. Caption: (male narrator) Water, a precious resource for sure.

Color gradients showing the amount of water vapors over a map of the earth. Caption: showing the total amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

Person looking into a microscope. Caption: (Zacharias) What do you do at the lab?

Closeup of a slug with arrows labeling its optical and sensory tentacles at the front, its mantle in the middle, and its keel towards the back.

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We look down at the edge of a tan tent that is secured in the sand.

Woman smiles up at us from beneath a bucket hat as she sits with her legs wrapped together in white fabric.

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Leaves and branches on a tree. Photosynthesis. Caption: In photosynthesis, trees take in carbon dioxide,

Children outside, near the Outsiders Club shed, working at a table with cut plastic bottles and other materials.

Close-up of a skillet toasting several small round sandwiches with a hand and a spatula flipping one.

Children talk to each other while standing next to a chain-link fence.

Young woman with her hair in a braid stands near a small pond in a park, with palms and tall trees in the background, as she speaks to someone off-screen.

Boy and girl hike while surrounded by cypress trees and roots, underneath a bright green canopy of leaves.

Children carrying backpacks and a walking stick talk amongst cypress trees and other plant life.

Two kids in yellow jumpsuits stand on either side of an adult as he unfolds a bright green fire shelter.

Man wearing sunglasses and a bright yellow button-down shirt shows a folded-up fire shelter to two kids who are clad in yellow jumpsuits. Behind them, a fire truck is parked on the grass.

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Close-up shot of a person squatting down and picking up a handful of dry debris of leaves and dirt off the ground, crumbling it in her hand.

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