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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.

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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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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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Purple-hued still frame of a boy leaning over and lifting a man out of water. Caption. She didn't answer, and then I called the paramedics.

Boy dives off platform into large, laned pool. Caption. On my swim team to set goals.

Woman in Hawaiian shirt looks down in foreground while man does dishes and girl walks away in background. 2 music note icons indicate music playing in video.

Black and white closeup of a smiling girl in glasses holding a pole on crowded subway car. Caption. And well, always have their back.

Figure on bike approaches wood shingled house with light visible through enclosed porch.

Teenage girl next to a computer screen with a collage of photos of herself at different ages. Caption. It's just to show you that a few years.

Cartoon. Light blue cloud with smiley face outlined in white on a blue grid. Caption. Being smaller than the average cloud.

Man seated on stage playing the guitar. Caption lyrics. Teenage body image blues.

Closeup of a girl glancing sideways in a room with another child. Caption. I told Miss Johnson that Dan asked to sit here.

Closeup of young dark-haired man wearing a blue striped shirt in front of a blurred background. Caption. I love to play the game and watch it.

Middle-aged woman smiles in a carpeted room with couch in the background. Title card reads, "Jeannette Aslanian, Tori's Mom." Caption. I was like, "Okay, tell me more about it."

Woman speaks to camera with a slight smile against a bright blue backdrop. Caption. But you don't have to like or dislike something.

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Young woman smiles and looks towards camera. Behind her, a digital background with a wavy, colorful pattern. Caption. Making mistakes is part of being a person.

Young woman smiles and looks towards camera as she speaks. Behind her, a digital background with a wavy, colorful pattern. Caption. It's hard to say no to friends.

Color illustration. 2 adult and 2 baby woodchucks look at cracked egg with goose emerging.

Young woman faces camera against a blurred background, smiling and gesturing with her hands using sign language. Caption. Self-esteem is how we feel about ourselves.

Teenage girl smiles and shrugs her shoulders shyly while looking at another teenage girl smiling back. They are standing in a hallway with school lockers behind them. Caption. He sounds cute.

Girl in pink shirt with a pleasant expression parts lips in mid-speech. Colorful stacks of blocks fill the background. Caption. Hey, you wanna cut class or cheat on a test?

2 boys, 1 younger and 1 older, at home. Caption. Why so down?

Closeup of man in suit holding paper, looks at camera. Name, John Maucere, appears in comic bubble nearby. Caption lyrics. No Ordinary Hero.

Woman seated at a desk in a home office looks up at camera, open laptop in front of her. Caption. They also put leaders at every level of an organization.

Closeup of a teenage boy in a blue plaid shirt looking down and talking in front of a metal fence outside. Caption. I don't think the media should have any effect.

Light yellow strokes radiate outward in concentric circles against an orange backdrop. White word bubble in center reads, "Say Something! By Peter Hamilton Reynolds."

Native American person speaking into camera with an image of snowy mountains as a backdrop. Caption. It took years to develop the self-image you possess.

Color illustration. Open picture book shows a spoon wearing a blue dress running through the house with a dinner plate wearing a yellow shirt. Caption. Who fell in love with a dish and ran off to a distant land.

Girl sits with knees up and mouth open mid-speech in front of stacks of colored blocks. Caption. Self-advocacy is a fancy way.

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Woman stands in front of a class of elementary school children, holding her hands out. Caption. And as soon as you do that, create your own poster.

Closeup of a teenage girl and a younger girl laughing as they look downward. Caption. Me and my sister have a good relationship.

Black and white frame shows a desk with a laptop and several documents. Person's hand uses a stapler to staple a stack of papers. Caption lyrics. She'll be drivin' six white horses when she comes.

Color illustration. Barefoot child dances on a grassy lawn surrounded by flowers as a bird flies overhead. Caption. Sometimes dancing.

A boy who looks sad and confused. Caption: I've noticed there's hair under my arms.

Woman standing in a school hallway. Caption: I know that for me, when I started going through puberty,

Illustration of HIV virus and three cells. Caption: IMMUNE SYSTEM but HIV is a little different.

Outline of two bodies, a dot where the pituitary gland is located. Caption: The brain signals the pituitary gland

Illustration of skin showing the sebaceous gland and a pimple. Caption: gets clogged by too much oil.

Black and white frame shows a man wearing a dark coat, scarf and brimmed hat standing between 2 bellhops.

Young woman with dark wavy hair smiles at camera. Text overlay reads, "Grit." Caption. They have grit!

3 teenagers sit around a table, leaning in to talk to each other with focused expressions. Caption. To fit in with a certain crowd?

Adult and young person talking in a kitchen. Caption: They're going through changes.