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Free Membership - Access to more than just media

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.

Training Videos

Educator and sign language training videos for school personnel and families.
Learning Center

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.
Captioning Key
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Help Center

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

Still image from: Why Should I Care? Pollinators

Still image from: Why Should I Care? Recycling

Closeup of a frog. Caption: The bullfrog has turned out to be just an eating machine.

Pile of dark substance with eyes on the ground next to a bus stop. Caption: what's left of you, you're about 2/3 carbon.

Large fish with a white underbelly and gray upper body. Caption: known as the underwater panda of China.

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

Bird with wings spread on a nest. Caption: The parent will care for that chick up to three years.

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

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.

Seal breaking the surface of the water and diving downward. Caption: with less than 600 seals remaining in the wild.

Person in a small wooden boat with a large fish across the width of the boat. Caption: It is a beast, and has been known to weigh over 600 pounds.

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

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

A bison eats from a pile of hay. Caption: The animals will be the foundation of a herd.

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

Still image from: Wildcats for Kids

Forest fire burns trees. Overlaid text tells about different fires in the U,S and Canada and how many acres each one burned.

Still image from: Wildfires 101

Person crouching and checking the air pressure on the tire of a vehicle. Caption: Keep your tires properly inflated.

Still image from: World Oceans Day

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Animal Coexistence

Surfer rides a massive wave in a deep blue ocean.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth Communication

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth Power

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth Weather

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Fire and Ice

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Future Energy

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: Marine Restoration

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Master Designer

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: National Parks

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

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: New England

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Ocean Exploration

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Odd Corners

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Planet Rescue

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

Zoomed-in map of the terrain of Europe, with Slovenia highlighter in orange at the center. The surrounding countries of Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia are featured and labeled, with their borders highlighted in bright green.

Student leans over an open laptop on a desk while typing.

In the desert, a cloud darkens rows of solar panels lined up as far as the eye can see.

Teenage student crouches next to an orange bucket, holding a sample bottle. Her classmate works behind her along the rocky landscape.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Trees

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Growing Food

Futuristic compact teardrop-shaped green vehicle on three wheels drives on the street amongst traffic.

From above, we see a simple white tennis shoe on a dark-colored carpet.

At a recycling center, two people stand in front of a conveyor belt that transports plastic waste.

Inside a lab, we see a scientist working with a green plant.

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Water

Still image from: Xploration Life 2.0: Ark of the Future

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Junk