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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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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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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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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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Woman wearing a white blouse and black vest sits behind a desk and gestures at camera. Title card below reads, "Olga Block, Co-Founder and CEO of Basis". Caption. They wanted to get rid of me in kindergarten.

A political map of U S. Caption: A national grassroots movement to legalize democracy.

Close up of hand with finger pointing towards viewer beneath a banner that reads, "International Youth Day." City skyline in background. Caption. To honor kids like you.

Illustration of the Earth from space with the equator marked on the globe. Caption: May Day honors the arrival of spring.

Workers in yellow jackets carrying white lunchboxes walk away from the building. Caption. And everybody's wondering exactly what's going on here?

Cartoon. Woman seasons and stirs a pot on the stove. Perspective is taken from an outside window looking in.

Woman with Down Syndrome stands in a kitchen next to a woman with cerebral palsy just out of view.

Black and white photo of people holding ceremonial banners attached to poles. Caption. The processions with the lighted candle.

Man in collared shirt, tie and vest sweeps ground outside a doorway. Caption. In the past, most villages were poor.

Exterior of 2-story buildings in a rural area. Caption. Da Meize. Southwestern China.

Person standing on an overlook pointing at the drop-off edge of a dam. Caption: But, where does the water come from?

Blue recycling bin with empty canned food containers, soda cans, and other recyclables. Caption: We've got bottles, we've got soda cans,

Back of a Black woman's head looking towards a group of small Black children, all dressed in gray uniforms and seated in a circle around her. Caption. But in each unique part of the world.

Grid of 4 photos showing different types of geography, including a lakeshore and valley surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Caption. How the geography of a region helps to create or inform.

Crowded indoor 2-story room with people holding signs up as if taking part in a political demonstration. In the foreground, 1 sign reads in Spanish, "Maestros para la justicia."

Outdoor stage performance. Person dressed as a snowman dances in front of an igloo castle. 2 men in brightly colored jester costumes are also visible on stage. Caption. Kicks off the largest winter carnival in the world.

People watch a parade of green, red, and white Chinese dragon statues on a city street. Caption. The fabulous place where this celebration takes place.

Senior man stands on the lawn in front of a Victorian-style building. The sign next to him reads, "The Law Offices of Peter Miller".

A large dinosaur wearing a hat and a necklace changes the lightbulb on a streetlamp while a police officer stands next to her holding the light cover. Caption: She was the dinosaur who did favors for anyone who asked.

Earth at night as viewed from space. A network of glowing light is visible in unpopulated areas across the globe. Caption: of electricity to light our cities and power our economy.

Dog laying at the front of a doghouse with a sign attached with Caption: sad dog. Food bowl is upside down by his head, chain attached to the ground and the dog. Caption: He's on a short chain.

Illustration of an adult gorilla holding a baby gorilla, other adult gorillas in a forest the background. Caption: He was part of a large family of western lowland gorillas.

A lighthouse with the sails of ships in the background. Caption: the same natural enemy-- erosion.

Man wearing a turban and robe stands across from a young boy near a hut. They are looking down at a white cloth with vegetables. Caption. You have to keep your eye on the women at all times.

Rolling sand dunes with powerlines in the foreground. Caption: Beneath these dunes lies 65% of all known oil reserves.

Front view of Florence, a C, G, I white ambulance with headlights that look like eyes and a mouth across the front bumper, parked by the entrance of a hospital. Caption. Hi. I'll be right back.

Front view of George, a C, G, I white garbage truck with headlights that look like eyes and a mouth across the front bumper exits a garage. Caption. I help keep this city clean.

Front view of Sergeant Cooper, a C, G, I police car with black across the front and white on the sides, driving on a city street with a school bus and other vehicles in the background. Caption. I will show you what we do.

C, G, I bright red sports car with matching wheels and dark windows appears to drive out of a jail cell in low light.

Side view of a red fire engine as it drives on a street with factory towers in the background.

Sepia tone image of a police officer in uniform leaning on his squad car near the right rear passenger door as he talks to a small crowd of teenagers. Caption, narrator talking. We'll cover why belonging to a gang.

Woman with long blond hair looks at camera with her head tilted up slightly and her lips parted as she speaks. Shelves with books and file boxes fill background on the right.

People walking on a trail among burned trees. Caption: to study the fire's impact on the ecosystem.

A computer drive. Caption: to build out a wide-ranging, urban-sensing project

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.

Person handling a partially ripe strawberry still on the vine. Caption: "What can we plant? What's the rotation strategy?"

Map with areas shaded in different colors and patterns. Some locations are identified with text and others have lines of various patters indicating potential behavior of the fire. Caption: Their software will generate behavior models of the fire,

Title card on rusty light brown background reads, "Civilization is a complex society with 5 characteristics. Advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology."

Closeup of interconnected beam structure with train and cityscape in background.

Person kneeling on the ground next to a pile of dark material. Caption: which sells fashion items made from recycled garbage.

Crowd of Swazi children and women stand in front of a building. Caption. I don't know how many of us live here.

Black and white photo of a girl wearing a flannel jacket, hat, and gloves, leaning against a wood railing. Caption. Got to let our children take their chances here.

2 men stand outside of a New York City building, 1 is sitting next to a dog on a stoop, the other looks down at a piece of paper. Text below reads, "And this year, I'm up to 421 dollars."

Twilight shot looking down a city street with multi-story buildings. Text below reads, "The United Nations ranks Finland #1 in the world in education". Caption. For Finland being on the top in all these rankings.

Senior woman smiles at a woman wearing a plaid shirt and walking down the hall.

People on the magic school bus wearing rain hats. Caption: Ahh. The sweet smell of swamp gas.

Students and their teacher from the magic school bus standing in front of a landfill piled high with trash. Caption: (Wanda) How am I ever going to find my soldier in that mess?

Students from the magic school bus encased in raindrops. Caption: Water always falls out of the clouds, eventually.

A large dam spanning across a lake. Caption: It's the world's largest hydroelectric dam.

2 Inuk children lay on a sled pulled through the snow by 4 Huskies. 2 children follow behind.

Shawn the Train, a red locomotive, smiles on a track surrounded by green hills. Caption. Let's learn the traffic signs.

Indigenous woman with braided pigtails wears a traditional red costume with glitter and a cape with long multicolored fringe as she dances.

Side view of an industrial kitchen counter with 4 women wearing white hair nets while they prepare to mix and bake something in silver mixing bowls and springform pans. 1 woman on the left side takes a paper from a woman on the right.

Team of lacrosse players in uniform form a circle on the side of a rainy neighborhood street at dusk. They hold their black and white lacrosse sticks up and together in the center, and some players wear Santa hats.