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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.

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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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Digital illustration of an ancient Indian city with the snow-dusted mountains in the distance. In the foreground, people are wading in a body of water. Caption. Where each drop, just like each person.

Closeup of an Indian woman wearing a gold head scarf and gold jewelry. She is smiling and looking off to her left. Caption. I might have rice for 1 meal, but not another.

Color illustration. Black woman on hands and knees, eyes closed. A spiral behind her. Caption. I can make the wind play hide and seek.

Closeup of a crowd of youth wearing white shirts with red neckerchiefs and blue hats. They lift their hands in salute in front of a red Soviet flag. Text reads, "The Young Pioneers, 1922 to 1991. The Soviet Union."

Cropped image of women in headscarves entering a building labeled, "Baltimore Resettlement Center."

Rear view shot of 2 men dressed in medieval clothing tilting their heads to the left and looking at a partially built leaning tower of Pisa with scaffolding around it. Caption. You just gotta lean a little to the left.

Man seated on a stool speaks directly to camera against an orange stage backdrop like he is giving a lesson as a subject expert. Caption. Cooler climates, less land, and the flourishing.

Fisheye lens shot of the Pointe à Callière Museum of Archeology and History showing a tall cylindrical building with a decorative glass fan sticking out midway. A narrow rectangular building with vertical windows hugs the other building on 1 side.

Woman smiles and speaks directly to camera against a white backdrop like she is giving a lesson as a subject expert. Caption. This unequal relationship.

Teenage girl looks at camera, speaking. Caption. From government power.

Trace holds reusable bottles and coffee mugs in his hands. Caption: I think reusable bottles might be bad for the environment,

Trace is standing in front of a book shelf. Caption: Genetic engineering is complex, and it's wide reaching.

Split screen interview. One man wearing eyeglasses appears in a black ski mask in a dark room. On the right side is a man reacting, holding up a hand and squinting his eyes.

Digital illustration of a prickly green ball with an angry face standing in front of 3 large white balls with angry faces. Title card reads, "Alert! Flu Virus."

Tires, plastic bags, and other trash float or land at the bottom of an underwater habitat while fish swim through. Text reads, "Water Pollution."

Closeup of a yearbook page with side-by-side images. 1 is a picture of 3 young men by a school bus and the other is a young man in a household setting. Text above reads, "Junior Class." Caption. Boy as narrator. I want to see Americans, New York.

Still image from: What & Why? Self-Regulation Skills: Why They Are Fundamental (Spanish)

Frigid water with ice floating in it buts against a sheet of ice. Spanish captions.

Slide shows white text on a black background that reads, "What Are You?"

Multiple levels of freeway on and off ramps with vehicles. Spanish captions.

Still image from: What is Machine Learning?

Deep cracks in dried out mud. Spanish captions.

Spots of greenery in between a wide, muddy channel. Spanish captions.

Woman with short brown hair sits in a chair. Title card reads, "Lisa Reid's mom." Caption. And I know the warmth of the family.

Man seated in a classroom desk chair speaks to camera. Caption. Cause you know, what teacher's like, "I want the troubled kid?"

Still image from: Who Was Ghandi?

3 teenagers sit around a table, leaning in to talk to each other with focused expressions. Caption. To fit in with a certain crowd?

Crowd of Sudanese people wearing bright clothing and carrying full large white bags on their heads while they walk outside. Caption. Narrator. Separated from their families, many orphaned.

A computer-generated map of the western side of Africa denoting the Sahel Region superimposed over an image of several men in turbans and cloaks riding horses. Caption. The Sahel is a band of semi-arid grassland.

Young man in blue tank top and visor touches glasses and holds a C, D player while walking along a tree-lined street. Caption. With me fixing to be 21 in December.

Black and white photo of a man and 4 small children smiling for camera. Caption. Who was a psychologist and an inventor.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Food

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

Diagram displays numbers connected to icons that represent social networks beneath, conveying the complexity of data from these sources.

Still image from: Xploration Life 2.0: Drones Away

Against a backdrop of twinkling stars in a black night sky, we see text that reads, “Life 2.0, ‘Plugged In.’”

Still image from: Zach's Story: A Suicide Prevented