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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.

Training Videos

Educator and sign language training videos for school personnel and families.
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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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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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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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Boy sits and looks at an open book in a library setting. Another boy leans over him and a woman stands behind him. A girl sits next to him with an open book as she looks toward him. Caption. Yeah, dude. Hannah confused me.

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2 red lines branch off from a red dot at the top connecting to red dots that continue to branch off in twos 5 times to form a crown-shaped contagion.

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Thirteen people, ranging from children to adults, are on a video call together. One man has a background with an image of books on it.

Thirteen people, including two adults and mostly teenagers, are on a video call together.

Cartoon green smiley face that looks uncertain with germs around their mouth stands in front of a brown house. Next to the house are faces of different skin tones smiling and sticking their tongues out. The background has thermometers, stethoscopes, and crosses.

Cartoon of a young girl holding a clipboard up to a man who is leaning down and holding a hand out towards her. The background has illustrations of hearts and hands shaking.

Cartoon of two young children finger painting and stamping their whole handprint onto a piece of paper. Two other children play with dolls. Two more children play with a tea set, and another pair plays with trains.

Green cartoon face looks unsure standing by itself and sneezing. Four green unsure faces are gathered together as the sneeze spray from the one face gets on them. Mean-looking germs surround the group of faces.

Group of teenagers sit in a row facing a woman with a guitar. Caption. Tell me what you think the topic of the song is.

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2 teenage boys sit at a table in a computer lab. They hold a container lid top at the edge of a container to form a ramp for a small robotic vehicle to go down.

Young woman wearing headphones speaks into a microphone and faces away from camera in a darkened foreground. A young man and young woman watch her through a window in the background.

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Woman sits at a desk and looks down at a few papers while a girl in glasses sits across from her. Caption. Today we're going to talk about problems.

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Grocery store produce department with stacks of different fruit. Caption: Many fruits are better for us than candy and cookies.

Closeup of a girl's calf stretched out on a grass lawn. The girl's hands massage her shin while another person flexes the girls' foot and supports her knee. Text below reads, "Stretch and massage."

Multiple photos of young men and soldiers. The photos are standing up on a carpeted floor with sides slightly rolled. They are lined up next to, behind and above each other in front of a camouflage fabric backdrop.

Closeup of a barber pole mounted onto and extending out from the entrance of a building. Below the pole is a sign that reads, "Barber Shop."

2 middle aged men stand inside a front door entry. 1 man looks downward and uses a drill on the door's lock area as the other man watches him. Caption. To rebuild their homes which have been destroyed.

Multiple overlays with black and white photo of the Yankees' pitcher and catcher hugging at home plate next to a sepia tone photo of Don Larsen. The score appears at the top with a text box below that reads, "Game 5. 1956 World Series. Dodgers versus Yankees."

Medium view of a teenage boy in a suit sitting at a desk in a newsroom setting. He looks directly at the camera ready to speak.

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3 boys sit around a table. 2 have their hands raised. They look toward a woman sitting across from them with her back to camera. Caption. All right, who wants to start?

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Boy faces camera in a blue baseball cap. Lyrics caption. Honor thy children.

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

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