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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.

Teaching Tools

Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.

Training Videos

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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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.

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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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Learning Resources for Parents of Students With Disabilities

A mother stands behind her daughter who is seating at a desk at home. They are working on a laptop together.

Each school year brings new challenges for parents and their children. Whether you're working on an IEP, juggling remote learning with classroom instruction, learning ASL, or building math and literacy skills, DCMP can make this time a little less stressful with our free resources.

Families with a child with a disability qualify for free membership at DCMP and gain access to:

Thousands of captioned and described educational, standards-aligned videos
IEP resources
Videos relating to blind life
Videos relating to deaf life
Videos relating to deaf-blind life
ASL training videos
ASL content and storytime videos
Videos with ASL interpretation
Accessible TV series

To sign up for DCMP membership, just click the link at the top of the page; it's fast and it's free. If you have any questions, contact us via email or by phone at (800) 237-6213. You can also visit our Help Center.

Here are some resources to help you get started.

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Group of children seated cross-legged on the floor, looking in the same direction. Caption. And continue to make literacy important to us.

Seated Latino man and young girl gaze at a book as girl uses her index finger to follow words. Spanish caption. Araya. Así que cuando está ayudando a su hijo.

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.

Computer image of 6 braille dot rows on a page. Text on image, reads. And, The, between row 3 and 4. Caption. Cell 1. Dot 6, the capital sign.

Man holds a child on his lap as they read from a book in front of them. Spanish caption. Araya. Los niños disfrutan de compartir libros.

Videos for Parents of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

Classroom with children seated at desks. Caption. Jessica as narrator. I work so hard so I can do the same stuff they do.

Girl looks at laptop monitor, seated. Caption. I want to show what it's like to be me.

Young boy in a red and white checkered shirt looks down at the ground. Caption. Had the right to receive a free, appropriate public education.

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

Low shot of a person holding a baby resting in a handheld carrier. Caption. Jen as narrator. Look at who is coming home for the first time!

Teenage boy wears a red tee-shirt, blue shorts and baseball cap, tall red-striped socks, and baseball cleats. He kneels with a padded knee on a grassy baseball field as he prepares to throw a yellow softball. Caption. Don't let anyone else tell you what your child can or cannot do.

Videos for Parents of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Closeup of a toddler looking away from camera. Caption. About development and language skills.

Woman gestures towards a painting propped on an easel, children watching attentively. Caption. Where teachers used speech supported by signs.

Man at a dining table points to an article in a newspaper. There is a person to his left just out of view. Caption. See this? It says it's very cold up there.

Man and woman sit next to each other and look towards camera with serious expressions. Caption. And I still really don't know how to react.

4 girls seated in classroom looking at woman using sign language. Caption. Make sure that you put down numbers 1 through 10.

IEP Resources

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

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

<html>Closeup of a woman looking slightly off camera. Text overlay reads, "Hearing Loss in the Classroom. <u>LearningLikeMe.com</u>"</html>

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.

<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.

Videos for Young Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

An adult mama bear with hands on hips and a frown. A child bear wearing a skirt, holding a human child and saying, Caption: Squeaker is gonna be the best pet ever!

Color illustration of a child sitting at a table and writing on a piece of paper next to flowers in a vase. Caption. One day, Ramon was drawing a vase of flowers.

Cartoon magnifying glass held over a 2-story white house. Caption. Synthesizer plays upbeat music.

Color illustration of 2 large kangaroos and 1 small kangaroo on a grassy hill with trees. Spanish caption. Un día estaba Kirby en el campo con su mamá y su papá.

A tall evergreen tree as seen from below. Caption: You can grow all the trees you need.

Puppet of a cow in overalls next to a barn. Caption: Let's go to the barn and visit real pigs.

Color illustration, 2 large, brown fuzzy creatures looking at smaller purple fuzzy creature. Caption. They are just like.

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