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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.
Captioning Key
Description Key

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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DCMP partners with top creators and distributors of educational content. Take a look
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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Services

Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

Projects

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Television Access

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

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Privacy Statement

Terms of Service

Accessibility Policy

Mission and Funding

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Sign Language

Within Deaf Life

Sarah, a deaf woman, leans over a kitchen table as she holds a sippy cup in her hand. Her toddler stands on a chair at the table with a bowl in front of him. They appear to be using sign language.

Group of people running down a tree-lined road, wearing numbers on their shirts like they are competing in a race. Caption. Only 375 yards to go.

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--El Cucuy Is Scared, Too!

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Go Get 'Em Tiger!

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Happy Little Sun

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Hello, Rain!

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Marigold Bakes a Cake

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Pigs Can't Look Up

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Sandy Toes: A Summer Adventure

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Sweet Laba Congee

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--The Carpet: An Afghan Story

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--The Midnight Babies

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--The Naming Ceremony

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--The Yellow Handkerchief

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Yenebi's Drive to School

Book cover titled, "Maisy's Bedtime." Illustration of Maisy the mouse sitting under the covers in bed and reading a book. Text reads, "Lucy Cousins."

Still image from: Meet the Helpers: How Do American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreters Help the Community?

Native American man in a head dress and traditional clothing gesturing with his hands. Come straight, buffalo! Caption: This extraordinary film from 1930 shows "Plains indian sign language," or "Hand talk."

Woman is signing in front of a 2-page view of a storybook illustration of a big tree, a deer, a fawn, and a gray squirrel. Story text appears on screen.

Woman stands in front of a color illustration of a green tree on a small red island. A dark gray cloud partially covers the sun. Story text on image reads, "Turns dark and gray."

2 teenage boys in an auditorium setting, 1 holds drumsticks and the other looks down at a drum.