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DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, used worldwide.
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Asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision, or deaf-blind.

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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 are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
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These self-paced, online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note-taking, and learning about audio description.

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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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African-Americans

Within History

Faces of influential Black Americans dispersed across frame. February calendar page and map of the U, S in background. Caption. To focus on and learn more about black culture.

Still image from: All About the Holidays: Black History Month (Spanish)

Closeup of a wooden Kwanzaa kinara with red, green and black candles. Heap of fruits and vegetables fills background.

Three side-by-side photos of different spaces, including a park with a walkway, a staircase entrance to a school building, and a small town store. All three images are overlaid with a red circle with a slash through it.

Rendering of Martin Luther King, Jr. standing behind a pulpit in a church setting. Caption. Dr. King spoke out against racial discrimination.

Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: Brown v. Board of Education

Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: The Story of Women's Rights in Early America (Part 1)

Woman at door of a brick building. Caption. So with the 16 Black students and 4 Black teachers, they set up what...

Two people dance as a group of people watches behind them in a gymnasium.

Man in an NYC t-shirt and baseball cap dances in front of the entrance of a building.

Man wearing a red hoodie hops up in the air as he dances with four other people watching and clapping their hands behind him. Across the street is the Howard Theatre.

Still image from: Listen, St. Louis: Addressing Trauma in the Black Community With Candice Cox

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Black Kids Yoga Class--Empowering Mental Well-Being

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Charles Henry Turner's Study of Bees

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Dred Scott and "A More or Less Perfect Union"

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Eliza Rone--Enslaved & Emancipated at the Campbell House

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Kids, Race, and Racism

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Play Therapy for Children's Mental Well-Being

Still image from: Oberlin: A Village Rooted in Freedom

Still image from: Of Black and Blue: The Journey of African-American Police

Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: Letter From Birmingham Jail

Still image from: Reframing the Narrative: Blacks in Ballet

Still image from: Roots of Resistance: Is Voting a Privilege or a Right?

Several young people working on an object. Caption: the first all-female African-American RoboCup team.

Still image from: Talking Black in America

Three log-cabin-style structures in a row next to each other, near a paved driveway and white house, and backing up to a wooded area. Caption reads: "FightersHeaven.com."

Still image from: The Backbone

Black and white frame of Jackie Robinson at bat mid warm-up swing. Caption. Come on, Jackie boy, get a hold of one!