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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.

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Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.

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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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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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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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Still image from: Awesome Adventures: Quebec

Tall snowcapped mountains covered in lush green trees and a light green river with two rafts winding through the valley. Caption: Clearly this place has to be preserved.

Blurry product label as seen through clear film. Caption: Naphthalene doesn't occur naturally in ground water.

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Film still of Charlton Heston in Call of the Wild wearing a heavy fur coat and sitting at a table with a red uniformed man. Caption. I can get you a bonus for getting back there quick.

Closeup of copper roof and clock of Peace Tower in Ottawa, Ontario, Canadian flag with red maple leaf prominent appears in the foreground.

Black and white photo of a crowd of men walking together below a bridge, waving small French flags. Caption. Many of French descent wanted the province of Quebec.

Outdoor stage performance. Person dressed as a snowman dances in front of an igloo castle. 2 men in brightly colored jester costumes are also visible on stage. Caption. Kicks off the largest winter carnival in the world.

Still image from: Go Jetters: The Boreal Forest, Canada

Still image from: Go Jetters: Whistler Mountain, Canada

Dirt road surrounded by grassland and wildflowers. Road leads to a gentle hill in the distance.

A stream flows through a mountainous region. Caption: Canada Coastal Forest. Latitude, 50 degrees North. Longitude, 125 degrees West. Rainfall, 3000 to 5000 millimeters. Winter Temperature, minus 2 degrees Celsius.

Closeup side view of a senior man looking down in front of a body of water. Caption. They have everything they need for their salute.

Wide shot of a moving passenger train with forests and mountains in the background. Caption. From a car, this is what our train would look like.

Color map of Western Canada with provinces and territories highlighted in green.

Simplified digital map of Bulgaria with irregular shapes in shades of brown and green and a red blurry circle in the bottom center marking Pirin National Park. Caption. Or 106 square miles.

Fisheye lens shot of the Pointe à Callière Museum of Archeology and History showing a tall cylindrical building with a decorative glass fan sticking out midway. A narrow rectangular building with vertical windows hugs the other building on 1 side.

A re-creation of a colorful Indigenous Canadian totem. Caption. Canada, before there was even a Canada.

Vancouver Maritime Museum exhibit with models of early 20th century steam ships, a porthole, and a colorful figurehead decorated with a gold and red Chinese dragon. Caption. And seek the Northwest Passage through the Arctic.

A bear in a river.

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Turtles, Horses, and Migrating Birds

Aerial view of an industrial plant emitting pollution. Caption: and impacted by oil and gas exploration and activities.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Grizzlies of British Columbia

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Rivers and Lakes

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Winter Wonderland

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Canadian Space Agency