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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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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.

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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Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

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Grocery store produce department with stacks of different fruit. Caption: Many fruits are better for us than candy and cookies.

Middle-aged man sits in front of a bookcase and next to a computer monitor and keyboard. He is slightly turned away from camera as he speaks. He raises his right hand with the index, middle, and fourth fingers together to indicate the number 3.

Teenage girl dressed in a winter jacket stands next to an S, U, V. A Teen Kids News microphone is held in front of her mouth as she smiles and stands sideways. In the backdrop is a snow bank, brown grass and a 2-story house.

2 teenage girls sit on a carpeted floor. 1 girl in a tee-shirt with a red cross sits on her heels holding a folded white cloth in her lap. She speaks to the other girl sitting with 1 leg long and the other bent who appears to be injured.

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Middle-aged woman sits in a lunch room as she looks to the side of camera. She speaks and gestures with both hands in an animated fashion.

Closeup of a barber pole mounted onto and extending out from the entrance of a building. Below the pole is a sign that reads, "Barber Shop."

Digital overlay of a white flag over a waving U, S flag. Text on the digital overlay reads, "Flag Facts" in bold text.

Closeup of a boy seated against a pillow on an easy chair in a home living room. He looks forward and to the side of camera as he speaks.

Woman pushes and a man pulls a cart filled with collapsed tables in what appears to be a school auditorium or gymnasium.

Closeup of Abraham Lincoln's young son, William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln. A black and white photo of the child with a black star in the lower left corner appears next to text which provides William's biography.

Side-by-side news-style Teen Kids News interview with a teenager speaking to a middle-aged woman. A text box below reads, "Anger. Dr. Susan Heitler, Psychologist."

Airport security screening area with people walking through stanchion belts to a security check-in officer. 2 other officers stand near him. Security metal detectors, metal tables, and x-ray detectors with conveyor belts appear behind the officers.

Closeup view of a seated teenage girl resting her chin on her folded hands. She looks directly into the camera with a serious expression. She wears a winter coat with fur-like edging.

View through a green metal fence of 2 boys wearing bathing suits and running on the sand as if in a race.

Teenage girl glances to the side as she opens her mouth to speak. Title bar reads, "Ava Della Pietra via Skype."

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Blurry closeup of a calendar page with 13 circled in red. Caption. Schedule a date to quit and do it cold turkey.

Closeup of a wall showcasing a child's hand drawn poster. Poster reads, "Make the Right Decision. Stay Smoke Free. Follow Your Dream."

Woman in a blazer looks past camera with her brow furrowed slightly and lips parted. She sits in front of bookshelves lined with binders and textbooks.

Man in a lab coat and tie looks past camera and parts lips as he speaks. He stands in the hallway of a medical building.

Vintage polaroid of a smiling girl in a red plaid hat and scarf. Caption. Behind closed doors.

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A man sits in driver's seat with car stopped. He leans over to open passenger door for a man standing next to the car. Caption. Come on. I don't bite.

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Native American woman dressed in a tan fringe top, colorful scarf and hair piece holds a child in her arms. Caption. Were foods like corn, potatoes, turkey.

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Young man in blue tank top and visor touches glasses and holds a C, D player while walking along a tree-lined street. Caption. With me fixing to be 21 in December.