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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 woman. Caption: So we found a way to control prosthetic limbs.

Ocean wave cresting and crashing on itself against a blue sky background. Caption. "We need more points to capture the fine-scale structure."

Researcher Mark Mote, a man with short dark hair wearing a plaid shirt, talks in front of a large blue banner. A young woman is near him in the background. Caption. "And that can be as simple as telling it how to add numbers."

Digital image of rays of light streaking outwards over repeating diagonal and horizontal rows of binary code.

Dark room with open blinds in the background emitting dim exterior lighting. In the lower left corner of the frame, a computer monitor displays a white background with gray text boxes and black lettering.

Man wearing dark polo shirt looks forward and speaks to camera.

Upper half of a blonde woman over a purple background next to a yellow circle that reads, "Part 1: The importance of being cyber literate." Caption. And how to use our online world effectively and safely.

Closeup of a man with short black hair, square black glasses, and a white collared shirt talking. Caption. This program is divided into 2 parts.

Woman speaks to camera, gesturing out with 1 hand. Caption. As far back as I can remember.

Woman faces camera with an alert expression. Title card identifies her as Andrea Colaco, M, I, T Computer Science P, H, D, 2014. Caption. To get what we want.

Young man faces camera and gestures with his hands as he speaks. Behind him, a video game world with a scoreboard and mystery boxes.

Man in a white hooded sweatshirt and glasses sits in a computer lab. He smiles and looks slightly off to the side.

Blonde woman wearing a black shirt looks at a man in front of a blue background with faint white question marks. White text at the bottom reads, "Presentation software." Caption. Let's ask you this.

Circuit board with red and black wire. Resistor and LED with positive and negative polarity are displayed. A schematic shows a diagram of the red wire as 5v red row, black wire and black row. Caption: the positive side of my power.

Woman with long hair wearing a gray shirt looks down on something she's making with her hands on a counter. Behind her are hundreds of colorful items on shelves and in drawers. Caption. So, we're going to program a very simple example for these.

Computer model of spiral ribbon structures with hollow, hexagonal tubular structures. Caption: (male narrator) What's the best was to know a protein?

Computer screen showing a bar graph and pie chart of energy consumption in watt-hours. Caption: showing me which devices are consuming the most energy.

Computer screen showing the aerial view of a multi-story building and thumbnail views of other buildings. Caption: It's part of a new computing concept

Blurry black and white still of a man in a long trench coat with 1 arm raised.

Two people standing at a counter checking in with a receptionist. Caption: So they joined a live donor kidney exchange program.

Ceiling security camera footage showing store aisles. Caption: to track shoppers as they move in the store and create data

Person with a headset being placed on their head. Caption: (narrator) The headset he is wearing allows him to steer

Person watching a newscast on a laptop. Caption: most people rely on TV to make decisions as storms approach.

McCormick Northwest Engineering. The 2009 hurricane season heats up: Ana, Claudette, and Bill. McCormick studios. Caption: (narrator) This is a virtual newscast.

Closeup image of a middle-aged man with a concerned expression on his face. Darkness surrounds him.

Upper half of a blonde woman over a bright green background with a yellow circle in the top middle that reads, "Part 1. What are spreadsheets and when will I ever use them?" Caption. In Part 1, what are spreadsheets.

Map of the United States covered in white bird icons from coast to coast. Caption: Today volunteers spot species and numbers each winter

Computer screen showing a satellite map with population data. Caption: We can identify the number of people

Angled view of 2 female and 1 male teenager sitting in a row at a long table operating black desktop computers in a beige room. Caption. Are applied and used in a variety of settings.

Low-angle view of a steam engine pulling several open passenger cars across a tall wooden bridge with fall colored trees behind it and green hills beneath it. Caption. Planes, trains, automobiles, and boats?