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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.
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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.

Meet our partners

DCMP partners with top creators and distributors of educational content. Take a look
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.
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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Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

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A person playing the piano. Spanish captions.

Closeup of the human eye. Caption: He may start examining the cornea.

Two people looking up at a kite flying in the sky. Caption: {Rory) I've been flying the kite with James five or six times now,

Three people standing. One person is chewing something. Caption: Step 3. When you unplug your nose, you should experience the flavor of mint as it rushes through the olfactory nerve.

Blurry city in background. Orchestra of the senses.

Blurry city in background. Taste and Smell.

Person slightly squinting. Caption: I hear that, but I probably won't remember the numbers.

Buckets filled with water, mesh fabric covering the top. Tubes running down the center of two adjacent rows, a cord running into the water of each bucket. Caption: Hearing experiment Phase 2 They needed to investigate if mud crabs can hear.

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Illustration of a guitar. Spanish captions.

Person on stage playing a guitar with a machine measuring the vibration coming out of a speaker. Spanish captions.

Closeup of toddler laying on bed looking at camera with another toddler looking at a man behind him.

Illustration of a baby crawling toward a cloud of scent. Spanish captions.

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Diagram of the human ear. Outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear. In the middle ear there are three small bones that bridge the gap between the outer and inner ear. Caption: The eardrum sets up vibrations on the three little bones

Illustration of a human skull with the eyeballs still present. Caption: The human eye is an organ -- an exquisite sensory organ --

Cartoon of a young girl with pink pajamas and brown hair using a green corded phone in bed, while a young boy in yellow pajamas is in bed in the background looking shocked. Caption. It's just my brother moaning again.

Illustration of the inner ear showing the stirrup bone and other structures. Caption: lie the fluid-filled cavities of the inner ear.

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Person with a virtual reality headset on. Caption: what sorts of stimuli increase sickness or reduce it.

Robotic arms manipulating a small ball. Caption: is pushing the world of robotics and prosthetics

A snake with eyes covered. Caption: this snake strikes its prey with pinpoint precision.

Closeup of the human eye. Caption: which regulates the amount of light entering the eye.

Diagram of sound entering the ear and being processed by the structures in the ear. Spanish captions.

Children wearing dark sunglasses against a backdrop of the beach. Spanish captions.

Long line of people waiting indoors in a hallway. Some look down at papers in their hands while others look forward.

Man in glasses sits with his hands clasped on his lap. He tilts his head and grimaces slightly while speaking. Crowded bookshelves fill the background.

$Closeup of the human eye with lines demonstrating how lights is refracted when it hits the lens. Caption: It behaves like a convex lens, bending or refracting light rays$