Browse Media Learn More

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.
Visit Learning Center

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.

See All

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.
Help Center
Continuing Education and Professional Development

DCMP offers several online courses, including many that offer RID and ACVREP credit. Courses for students are also available.
See All eLearning Resources

QuickClasses

Asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision, or deaf-blind.

See QuickClasses

Workshops

For interpreters, audio describers, parents, and educators working with students who are hard of hearing, low vision, and deaf-blind.
See Workshops

Modules

Modules are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
See Modules

Students

These self-paced, online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note-taking, and learning about audio description.

See Student Courses
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.
Learn More

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).
Learn More

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.
Contact Us
Services

Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

Projects

Media Center

Television Access

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

Privacy and TOS

Privacy Statement

Terms of Service

Accessibility Policy

Mission and Funding

Read More

Special Education

Within Education

Man looks towards an adolescent boy wearing a football uniform with full protective gear. They are standing on a field. Caption. To the information they can't hear.

Woman with straight brown hair in a lavender suit, seated at a student's desk, looking at the camera. Caption. To more accurately assess the student's abilities overall.

A woman against an illustrated background with penguins. Spanish captions.

Group of children seated with eyes front on a classroom floor, a few raising their hands. Caption. Let's wait, so everyone can get their thoughts together.

Senior woman named Gloria Fawcett looks off camera with a serious expression. Caption. I noticed she wasn't crawling.

Closeup of a woman wearing a white and pink striped scarf. She speaks and looks slightly to the side of the camera.

A teenager wearing a beanie with skull and crossbones and a hoodie with a skull, sitting at a desk and writing on a piece of paper. Caption: he couldn't read or write.

2 young woman seated next to each other at a desk covered in notebooks and papers. Caption. Through collaboration and co-teaching.

translation missing: en.dcmp.media.poster_alt_fallback

Woman seated next to a student in a classroom setting. Caption. In providing an equal opportunity in learning.

Woman, woman in lab coat and man who holds a baby. Caption. We need to look closely about how that diagnosis is shared.

Closeup on a child seated on the floor, appearing to be at school, looking ahead with a serious expression. Caption. Live in constant fear of humiliation.

Adolescent boy walks across a schoolyard with a confident expression. Caption. Meeting deadlines, knowing when to study for a test.

Closeup on a child writing a list on a sheet of lined paper. Caption. And succeed in the skill of written expression?

Black and white photo of Helen Keller in 1928. Caption. She was able to speak the sentence.

Young children work side by side at group desks in a classroom setting. Caption. To stay on top of the school situation.

Woman seated on a couch next to a young girl looking down at a tablet. Spanish caption. Que maravilla.

Closeup on a child writing on a sheet of lined paper, 1 sentence crossed out. Caption. This is such a difficulty that she'll write something down.

Young man wearing business attire speaks directly to camera. Caption. Images into spoken words.

2 twin blonde girls look down at their textbooks in front of them in a classroom setting. Caption. Narrator. A child's memory plays an increasing role in decoding.

Young girl wearing a bright blue t-shirt speaks to camera while standing on a suburban street. Caption. Hi, my name is Ava Bullis.

Group of people seated at a conference table with papers and folders on tabletop. Caption. You've all received full copies of the reports.

Frame of White teenage boy and girl in a classroom. Caption. Bury as narrator. Putting Lauren in a new environment helps, for awhile.

Young boy carries dinner plates to a table in a dining room setting. Caption. Narrator. Brian also helps with family routines.

Woman speaking with a man across a desk. Caption. And what you need in each classroom.

Woman seated next to an adolescent girl who is slumped down in her chair, forehead in hand like she's irritated. Caption. Now I'm going to find out about autism.

Slide with a dark-blue background that has strips of teal and yellow stretching across opposite corners. Title and subtitle text, "Everyone Included. Redefining Special Education and Student Support for Today's Teacher." Episode title, "Accommodations and modifications."

Slide with a dark-blue background that has strips of teal and yellow stretching across opposite corners. Title and subtitle text, "Everyone Included. Redefining Special Education and Student Support for Today's Teacher." Episode title, "Goals and growth plans."

Slide with a dark-blue background that has strips of teal and yellow stretching across opposite corners. Title and subtitle text, "Everyone Included. Redefining Special Education and Student Support for Today's Teacher." Episode title, "Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTII)."

Crowd of adolescents walking through school with backpacks. Caption. With wonderful opportunities to learn and grow.

2 girls talking in foreground and 2 younger girls in background on a playground set. Caption. Who will you play with??

Woman wearing a navy shirt with black turtleneck looks slightly down and away from camera. Title card below reads, "Jo Ann Freiberg, Ph.D. Education Consultant". Caption. Bullying is a very, very difficult concept to define.

2 women seated at a table looking down at an open booklet.

Man in a suit signs with both hands. Title card reads, "Are All Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Protected by the A, D, A?" Text on screen reads, "Disability equals physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity. Physical impairment includes deaf and hard of hearing." Caption. Does the A, D, A protect all deaf and hard of hearing students?

<html>Closeup of a woman looking slightly off camera. Text overlay reads, "Support for Students with Hearing Loss. <u>HearingLikeMe.com</u>"</html>

Woman with dark curled hair wearing a black and white blouse under a black cardigan. She bends over a desk in classroom to help a male student in a green polo shirt with his work. Caption. A reevaluation takes place every three years.

Woman with dark curled hair wearing a black and white blouse under a black cardigan bends over a desk in classroom to help a male student in a green polo shirt with his work. Caption. If we know a child is having problems.

Closeup of a row of 2 female and 3 male blonde teenagers operating black computers. Caption. We come back and identify new goals.

Closeup side view of a male student with glasses sitting in front of a woman with dark curled hair wearing a black and white blouse under a black cardigan. Both look down. Caption. And a change can take place within the I, E, P.

Boy lays back on a pillow hugging a stuffed animal. Caption. They don't feel the need to please teachers.