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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.

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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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A board with figures and a heavy object in the center bends downward in the center. Caption: You see that as the load increases, the bridge bends,

A board with interlocking triangular cutout supports running parallel to the board has figures on it and a heavy object in the center. The outermost edges of the triangular supports have buckled. Caption: The outer segments of the truss are the first to break.

A multi-story office building has sections of brick, glass and metal walls extending outward from the building center with lifts and trucks parked outside.

Man wearing jeans and a white sleeveless t-shirt uses a pipe cutter on a P, V, C pipe. The wall next to him has an open access panel exposing P, V, C piping that is under installation.

Teenage girl wearing a backpack approaches the front door of an office building.

Wide shot of a construction site with orange and white cones, stacks of building materials, and a front loader. Text below image reads, "Heavy Equipment Operator."

2 working men wearing hard hats lean over a steel frame looking down in the same direction.

Digital rendering. Aerial view of an intersection flanked by modern buildings, populated with pedestrians, and scattered with cars. Caption. We often use 3D modeling and computer-based software."

Still image from: Inevitable Evolution of Fort Frederick: Fort Frederick Tabby Restoration

Still image from: Learn About Construction With Wayne the Bulldozer & Jake the Skid Steer! A Day at Work

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do All Malls Look the Same?

Multiple shiny skyscrapers against a blue sky seen from below looking up.

Dam with no water being released. Caption: (male narrator) Time can take a toll on a dam.

Tool emitting bright light cutting circles into wood. Caption: (narrator) Tools, including this laser cutter and wood router,

Aerial view of a building with plants covering most of the surface area of the roof. Caption: (man) It's a roof of living plants.

Electrical meter box attached to the outside of a building. Caption: All the entries have to be zero-energy homes,

Person standing at the top of a wind turbine. Caption: to see if they can handle 300-foot heights.