Browse Media Learn More

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.
Visit Learning Center

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.

See All

Accessibility Guidelines

DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, used worldwide.
Captioning Key
Description Key

Help Center

Learn how to apply for membership, find and view accessible media, and use DCMP’s teaching tools.
Help Center
Continuing Education and Professional Development

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

QuickClasses

Asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision, or deaf-blind.

See QuickClasses

Workshops

For interpreters, audio describers, parents, and educators working with students who are hard of hearing, low vision, and deaf-blind.
See Workshops

Modules

Modules are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
See Modules

Students

These self-paced, online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note-taking, and learning about audio description.

See Student Courses
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.
Learn More

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
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.
Contact Us
Services

Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

Projects

Media Center

Television Access

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

Privacy and TOS

Privacy Statement

Terms of Service

Accessibility Policy

Mission and Funding

Read More

Emotions

Within Social Science

Still image from: StoryMakers With Awilda Prignano ("Loving Lulu")

Still image from: StoryMakers With Brenna Thummler ("Delicates")

Still image from: StoryMakers With Laura Vaccaro Seeger ("Red")

Still image from: StoryMakers With Marla Huehmer ("The Big Move")

Still image from: StoryMakers With Portia Y. Clare ("Best Friends Forever: A Puppy's Tale")

Rocco Staino holds up Susan Verde's book "I Am Peace" and listens as the author speaks.

2 teenagers at a cafeteria lunch table speak to camera. Spanish caption. Oh, ya nos vamos.

Group of teenagers interact with each other in a school courtyard. Caption. We'll talk about teens and stress.

Closeup of a teenage girl who is speaking and looking to the side with her eyebrows raised. Caption. He wasn't until I told him you wanted him here.

Hand holding a white sheet of paper in a folder on a desk. Caption. Actually, Jamie's grades aren't so great at the moment.

Person shining a light into someone's eye and looking closely at it. Caption: A migraine doesn't feel like a typical headache.

Rear view of teenage girl sitting at a control panel in a room with equipment monitoring panels, switches, lights and racks from the mid-1900s. A man wearing a hard hat stands between the control panel and equipment panels as he speaks to the girl.

Closeup of a digital image with text that reads, "Flag," with letters decorated with a montage of flags from several U, S states. The word, "Facts," appears below in black bold text.

Woman sits in front of a bookcase filled with books, trophies, and decorative items. She looks at camera as she speaks.

Side-by-side news-style Teen Kids News interview with a teenager speaking to a middle-aged woman. A text box below reads, "Anger. Dr. Susan Heitler, Psychologist."

Wide angle of the Gothic style Palace of Westminster and the River Thames flowing in front of the palace. Text on image reads, "For example, there's the Palace of Westminster."

Medium shot of a middle-aged woman seated outdoors in front of a wrought iron fence with green shrubs poking through. She looks at camera with a pursed mouth ready to speak.

Closeup of a teenage girl in sunglasses speaking into a microphone. She stands in front of a football field surrounded by a track.

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2113)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2311)

Storybook cover with drawings of 4 furry monsters of different colors, each with different expressions on their faces. Storybook title reads, "The Color Monster. A Story about Emotions."

Still image from: The Electric Sheep: Brain Wave Literature--Melancholy and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness (Spanish)

Middle-school girl wearing a backpack looks up at a woman partially visible in frame. Caption. he's not going to live with us.

Teenage boy and girl stand in front of a video frame looking out at camera. The video frame shows a group teenagers sitting on the edge of a swimming pool. Caption. In Sandra's case, stress made her want to practice.

Group of middle-school aged girls pause to chat at the foot of the stairs. Caption. I'm having a sleepover, come.

Still image from: The Law of Relativity: Love - Chapter 7

Still image from: The Law of Relativity: The Meaning of Life - Chapter 6

Three puppets on a stage, two of them dancing. Spanish captions.

A bat puppet hanging upside down on stage holding a microphone. Spanish captions.

Llama puppet and pig puppet talking. Spanish captions.

A puppet walking past a store front. Spanish captions.

Storybook covered titled, "The Perfect Hug." Illustration of purple bear hugging a baby panda, both with their eyes closed. Text reads, "Joanna Walsh and Judi Abbott."

Storybook covered titled, "The Pout Pout Fish." Frowning fish swims in a crowd of sea creatures near the bottom of the ocean above sandy towers and seaweed. Text reads, "Deborah Diesen. Pictures by Dan Hanna."

Outline of two bodies, a dot where the pituitary gland is located. Caption: The brain signals the pituitary gland

Storybook covered titled, "The Rabbit Listened." Young boy wearing sky blue and white striped pajamas hugs a bunny tight. Text reads, "Cori Doerrfeld."

A man sits in driver's seat with car stopped. He leans over to open passenger door for a man standing next to the car. Caption. Come on. I don't bite.

Color illustration. A green crocodile dressed in a woman's jacket and skirt wearing an orange wig and glasses, Mrs. Green written on the chalkboard behind her. Caption. Beams Mrs. Green, wiggling her fingers at him.

Still image from: The Tiny Chef Show: Pizza / Bread

Woman tilts her head back and closes her eyes. She parts her lips and holds her hand loosely in front of her. Behind her is a color illustration of a girl surrounded by stuffed animals in bed as backdrop. Caption. At night, when the lights go out.

Storybook cover titled, "Time to Say Bye-Bye." Illustration of a teddy bear laying in a lime green toy wagon. Text reads, "Maryann Cocca-Leffler."

Storybook cover titled, "Train Your Angry Dragon." Illustration of a boy holding back a spotted dragon as flames shoot from its nostrils onto a swirling fiery backdrop. Text reads, "Steve Sherman."

Closeup of a boy looking to the side with his lips parted slightly as if speaking. Caption. Then he knocked my tray out of my hands.

Black girl smiling and speaking into camera. Caption. So, I guess it was hard losing a brother.

Closeup of a boy's face. He is raising an eyebrow and glancing off to one side.

Teenage girl speaks to camera with colored paper and math equations in the background. Caption. They can cool down and think about their feelings.

Tall man wearing dark clothing walks with a short woman wearing dark clothing and wide-brimmed hat. They walk across green grass in between many large, upright headstones in a cemetary on a sunny day. Caption. There had been 4 of us, and now there was only me.

Blonde boy in a purple shirt, acid-washed jeans, and Air Jordan sneakers sits at the base of a large tree in the grass with his legs extended out and his head bent down. Caption. You know, to help him through it.

Man using a wheelchair, waiting on a sidewalk. A person stands nearby. Caption. I remember them well some years ago.