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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.

Meet our partners

DCMP partners with top creators and distributors of educational content. Take a look
U.S. Department of Education Funding for Accessible Media

The ED funds a Media Center grant to provide accessible, educational media to children with disabilities, as well as three Television Access grants. Grants are managed by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
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Educational Media Center

DCMP creates and streams accessible educational media to serve 7.5 million students, develops new technologies, and more through this ED grant. This includes the creation of high-quality captioning, audio description, and American Sign Language interpretation.

Television Access Grants

These grants support projects that add audio description and sign language interpretation to broadcast content. Bridge Multimedia, Dicapta, and DCMP operate OSEP-funded projects that develop high-quality audio description and ASL which align with educational standards to aid learning.
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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Bearded, turbaned man speaking with another man. Caption. We've been stranded here for awhile.

Young Black girl with dark curly hair holds a hand to her cheek, looking out and down with mouth in a slight pout.

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Black and white film still of a man in a dark suit, top hat, and curled mustache, walking outside and in front of a smiling woman with a fashionable dress and white parasol.

Hispanic woman leans towards a White man as they both look off in one direction. Caption. And tolerance between groups.

Computer image compares the features of 2 war planes. The P-51C Mustang has speed and maneuverability. The FW-190 has durability and armament. Caption. But the FW-190 is more rugged and has better armament.

Girl seated next to a small window and talking to a teenage boy. Caption. How long have you been keeping a diary?

Black and white photo of men wearing dress military clothing with plumed hats riding horses. Caption. Militarism, wars of conquest.

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Woman facing man who is speaking to her in a kitchen setting. Caption. No, he's even more strict than Mama.

Womans wearing blue jeans and a gray top uses a white cane to walk down a tree-lined dirt path towards the camera.

2 Black men lean against a fence and look up, light illuminating their faces. Caption. A young black man whose family has moved from the South.

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Closeup of a female teenager with long blonde hair wearing a multicolored sweater and gold hoop earrings. She sits on a step in front of a building and appears to be speaking. Caption. Try to get international friends.

Woman wearing a white lab coat, sitting in front of optometry equipment and an examination chair, looks at us while speaking.

Middle-aged Asian woman looks slightly down from camera with misty eyes. Caption. When I was young and had these things?

Senior man looks down and away with an emotional expression. Spanish caption. Que espera. Yo, yo cuando sembraba, senora.

Askew view of a police officer leaning against a police car bumper with the driver's door open. The car is parked in a parking lot. Caption. Why don't they do something that makes their life better?

Teenage boy seated in a bedroom. He faces camera and wears a spiked mohawk hairstyle. Behind him are wall posters, a drum set, and a chest of drawers with a blue ribbon hanging from a knob. Caption. Me and a couple of friends decided to have a party.

Split screen shows small and large families conversing with one another. Caption. Has tremendous potential to benefit both groups.

Low-angle view of a young boy running by a woman in a grass yard as a gray Schnauzer dog chases him. 2 people sit on a porch in front of a blue house behind them. Caption. Carl Junior narrates. I really don't know anybody that has A, D, D like me.

Young woman with brown hair pulled back in a clip leans back on her forearms in a grassy park while looking at a colorful sunset. Caption. So I think Yanili will be able to fulfill her dreams.

Closeup of a young girl with dark hair wearing a blue and white striped shirt. Another girl with dark hair in an orange shirt is blurred in the background to her left. Caption. She said girls aren't supposed to go outside.

Black and white image shows the wreckage of a large building that was bombed during WWII. Caption. One of the worst moments came on November 9, 1938.

Color illustration. 3 school children pause to chat. Caption. You don't know what you're talking about.

Closeup of a woman, smiling. Caption. Woman as narrator. She considered herself more American than Afghan.