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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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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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Marine Life

Within Science

Tubular spiny animal in various colors. Caption: There are thousands of different species.

Illustration of a whale swimming underwater. Music note.

Small fish swimming in the water. Spanish captions.

Still image from: What Killed the Whale?

Still image from: What's Wild: Bottlenose Dolphin

Still image from: What's Wild: Marshland Crabs

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

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Humpback Whales, Unwanted Dogs, Primates, and Raptors

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Icelandic Horses and Lionfish

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Zoos, Aquariums, and Research

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

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

Octopus underwater, limbs spread. Caption: he's a very successful, voracious predator.

Reddish spotted octopus underwater, limbs spread. Caption: that is actually a deadly web to snare prey.

Pink and yellow plant with branching limbs. Caption: We're discovering that life is much more creative

Multiple species of fish swimming in water as seen from below. Caption: Here are creatures rare and fantastic.

Underwater photo. From below, we look up at a seaweed forest in an ocean, racing up toward the sunlight. Text reads, “Macrocystis.”

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Alaska

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Animal Migrations

Small monkey in a tree gazes upward.

In the calm waters of the ocean, two orca whales breach the water as several more follow beneath the water behind them.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Bahamas

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Carolinas

Large combine moves towards us, harvesting golden grain.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Planet Rescue

Fully suited and masked scuba diver swims along the living coral of the Great Barrier Reef, reaching out to touch the plants.

From the perspective of a body camera, a person paddles an orange canoe over peaceful dark waters toward a tree-lined shore.

Woman wearing goggles and a wetsuit floats in the blue water of the ocean, reaching a device out towards a nearby shark.

Man straps a snorkeling mask to his head, looking out to the open water of the ocean.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Water

Still image from: Zebra Shark CT Scan

Cartoon of a beaver next to a river.

An illustration of a crab.

Cartoon of a dolphin swimming in the water.

An acquatic bird with small wings, a curved bill, and webbed feet.

Cartoon of a flamingo in the water.

An illustration of a flying fish.

An illustration of an hermit crab in the sea.

Cartoon of a jelly fish swimming underwater.

An illustration of an octopus in the sea.

An illustration of an orca jumping out of the water.

Cartoon of a pelican catching fish in its mouth.

An illustration of a piranha.

Cartoon of a sea horse swimming underwater.

Cartoon of a shark swimming next to an underwater shipwreck.

An illustration of a stingray jumping out of water.

An illustration of a pigeon on the street.

An illustration of a pigeon on the street.

Cartoon of a whale swimming in the ocean.