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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.
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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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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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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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National Science Foundation

Blurry film still of 2 geese flying with wings outstretched.

Two green plants in black containers. Red tomato floats next to one labeled, "Solanum Lycopersicum C, V dot M, 8, 2." An inset of a green tomato sits next to the other labeled, "Solanum Pennellii."

Color illustration of a T. rex with its mouth open wide toward the sky. Superimposed air conditioning unit directs wavy blue lines toward T. rex. Other dinosaurs and forest in background.

Night shot of a bug-eyed creature with mangy brown and white fur grasping a branch with long claws.

Closeup of an insect's face with bulging bronze eyes and hair-like sensors on a black body with wings.

Closeup of a bee hovering near the stamens of a bright pink flower. Out of focus flowers fill background.

Black and white mind map. Circle in center with hexagons dotted at vertices. Dashed lines radiate out to circles with images of a street, pieces of wood, a pie server, a gavel, a grid with dots, a paint can being poured, and a bottle.

Chrome robot using 4 hands, each with 2 mallets, to play a wood xylophone against a white background.

Aerial view of a rolling red rock landscape with a small arch formation in foreground.

Digital rendering of a featureless human figure standing on a path next to a segmented gray wall with a bike lane on top.

Earth floats in darkness as cracks in its surface emanate orange light.

A satellite view of North America. A red arrow from the Pacific Ocean points to the coasts of Mexico. Caption: that influences the winter US jet stream.

The microscopic image of cement particles. Caption: This new concrete replaces cement with a composite binder.

Two doctors discuss over the x ray of a human brain. Caption: could provide insights for the treatment.

A new device that helps capture and release soft bodied animals. On screen text, Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Caption: It folds up into a 12 sided, almost round box,

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a Scientist: How can I watch the solar eclipse safely?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: What makes solar eclipse glasses so special? Can I just wear sunglasses?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a Scientist: What's happening on Aug. 21st, 2017? And what can people potentially see?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: Where can I get solar eclipse glasses?