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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.
Captioning Key
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.

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DCMP partners with top creators and distributors of educational content. Take a look
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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Services

Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

Projects

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Television Access

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

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Terms of Service

Accessibility Policy

Mission and Funding

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PBS Digital Studios

PBS has been producing thoughtful programming for diverse audiences since 1970, and since 2012, PBS Digital Studios has been an innovator in digital-first educational programming, constantly exploring new directions to educate audiences about history, science, culture, and the world around them. PBS Digital Studios includes a network of YouTube channels with millions of subscribers and billions of lifetime views.

Closeup of a sea slug crawling across a bright green plant. The slug has an elongated irregular body that is pale yellow with black tiger stripes.

Man wearing headphones points a laser at a sharpshooter insect attached to a grapevine.

Two hairy Tarantulas crawling on the ground.

Closeup of a spiderweb stretching across a gap in what appears to be a wood log.

Blurred photo of a woman leaning over to kiss the cheek of a baby. The baby reaches up to grab her chin in its hands.

Closeup of an insect that has a long thin brown body that looks like a twig with short arms branching off. Its head looks like a long bright transparent leaf.

Closeup of a baby hairworm insect with a mottled light and dark brown body and thin legs crawling over a plant.

Closeup of a barely visible bee enveloped in a blurry light brown object.

Microscopic image of a cylindrical mosquito egg that's dark brown in color with hundreds of white dots that look like polka dots.

A photo depicts flies on the surface of a fruit.

Black beetle with thin, spidery legs and black and white antennas crawls down a thin sheet of dirty fabric.

Small black ovular beetle crawls along moss towards pile of leaves.

Closeup of an Indian walking stick camouflaged in twigs and leaves. It's brown with a long, thin body and legs.

Closeup of a light brown insect with a round flat body and short setae, or hair-like structures on its legs and mid-body.

Closeup of a light and dark brown mottled peregrine falcon egg shell.

Closeup of a light brown cricket camouflaged in the dirt.

Side view closeup of a hissing cockroach showing its shiny black body covered in hair-like bristles, pale abdomen, and horns.

A sketch of a dinosaur, and a man is seen standing below. Caption: Argentinosaurus, 35 meters approximately equals 114 feet. 70 metric tons approximately equals 154,000 pounds.

A cartoon shows a large python wrapping its body and squeezing a small crocodile.

Black and white photo of ancient rock drawings, including a kangaroo, deer, and a lot of scribbles.