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.

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Accessible Media

Standards-aligned videos with high-quality captions and audio description.

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Teaching Tools

Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.

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Training Videos

Educator and sign language training videos for school personnel and families.

Feasibility Study Relating To The Establishment Of A Descriptive Loan Service

This 1992 study was conducted by the Captioned Films/Videos Program (now the DCMP), with the principal investigator being Leo E. Persselin under the direction of the National Captioning Institute. It was submitted to the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and required by the ED as part of the Contract No. HS01005001 awarded to the National Association of the Deaf in 1991. The objective of the study was to: "Conduct a comprehensive study that will provide the funding agency with recommendations on any future loan service of video-based materials for visually impaired persons." Some conclusions and recommendations of the study included the following: (1) the existing accessible media are not exclusive of one another nor of a future loan service, (2) encouragement and support should be extended to all who have something to offer in expanding access to descriptive video, (3) all reasonable avenues should be explored for establishing a descriptive video loan service as soon as possible, and (4) the possibility of described videos being made available through commercial video rental stores should not be discarded without thorough investigation.

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