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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.

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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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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Two citizen scientists investigate an industrial site. One person carries a bucket while the other carries a file in the file. Caption: Citizen science, powered by disruptive technologies,

Illustration of a boy pouring a bucket of water onto a small tree. Caption: Liam began to feel like a real gardener,

A tortoise with its head and feet pulled into its body. Caption: (Berry) The tortoise tells us so much

Cartoon of a small, shrimp-like animal among a school of others. Caption: Pardon me, I'm a krill. We eat plankton!

Indigenous person sitting in the bow of a canoe on the water with the jungle in the background. Caption: And that's when the whole thing started getting bigger and bigger,

People on the magic school bus wearing rain hats. Caption: Ahh. The sweet smell of swamp gas.

Students and their teacher from the magic school bus standing in front of a landfill piled high with trash. Caption: (Wanda) How am I ever going to find my soldier in that mess?

Students and their teacher from the magic school bus in standing in a jungle in front of a tree with white puffy blooms on the trunk. Caption: It's your cocoa tree, all right, Ms. Frizzle.

Students from the magic school bus encased in raindrops. Caption: Water always falls out of the clouds, eventually.

Photo of bees near an artificial beehive.

Line of horseshoe crabs on the beach. Caption: Horseshoe crabs are super helpful.

Sky filled with gray fluffy clouds. Caption: Clouds can block some of the sun's rays

View of Earth from space. Caption: for the thermohaline circulation system.

Drawing of girl standing by the ocean. Caption: can expect a 1- to 4-foot rise in their lifetime,

Three old black and white images of men. Caption: (narrator) Roosevelt and Burroughs traveled to Yellowstone in 1903.

A large dam spanning across a lake. Caption: It's the world's largest hydroelectric dam.

A walrus poking its head out of ice water. Caption: (female) It's neat to see something so big, so caring.

Very close up view of microplastics. Caption: Microplastics that as less than five millimeters long--

Artwork of a bird and fish. Caption: animals often mistake plastic debris for food and eat it.

Artwork of plastic water bottle, trash bags, straws, and plastic bag. Caption: We find plastic everywhere,

Five people picking up trash. Caption: and participate in shoreline cleanups.

A net floating in water tangled in plastic. Caption: We call that derelict fishing gear,

An illustration of a trash bin with its side on the road on a rainy day. Caption: rainwater can move the trash into storm drains.

Two trees, their branches creating human faces. Caption: I'm just a green-collar guy trying to get his job done.

A well-groomed woman in a hat. Caption: A million couldn't repay me for what I've lost.

Closely spaced plants growing toward the water's surface. Caption: They grow in dense groupings, much like a forest on land.

Computer screen showing a satellite map with population data. Caption: We can identify the number of people

A bear in a river.

A group of people inspecting a waterbody.

Two cars are partially submerged in flood water.

Rocky streambed between snow covered banks. Caption: eventually causing them to split apart.