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Standards-aligned videos with high-quality captions and audio description.

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Accessibility Information

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DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, used worldwide.
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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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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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Senses

Within Science

Still image from: Deadly Predators: Super Senses

A person playing the piano. Spanish captions.

Closeup of the human eye. Caption: He may start examining the cornea.

Two people looking up at a kite flying in the sky. Caption: {Rory) I've been flying the kite with James five or six times now,

Three people standing. One person is chewing something. Caption: Step 3. When you unplug your nose, you should experience the flavor of mint as it rushes through the olfactory nerve.

Still image from: Hey Duggee: The Perfume Badge

Still image from: Hey Duggee: The Senses Badge

Still image from: Hey Duggee: The Taste Badge

Blurry city in background. Hearing.

Blurry city in background. Orchestra of the senses.

Blurry city in background. Sight.

Blurry city in background. Taste and Smell.

Blurry city in background. Touch.

Person slightly squinting. Caption: I hear that, but I probably won't remember the numbers.

Buckets filled with water, mesh fabric covering the top. Tubes running down the center of two adjacent rows, a cord running into the water of each bucket. Caption: Hearing experiment Phase 2 They needed to investigate if mud crabs can hear.

Illustration of a guitar. Spanish captions.

Person on stage playing a guitar with a machine measuring the vibration coming out of a speaker. Spanish captions.

Closeup of toddler laying on bed looking at camera with another toddler looking at a man behind him.

Illustration of a baby crawling toward a cloud of scent. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Let's Learn: Do You Hear Long Vowels in Hero?

Still image from: Let's Learn: Do You Hear the Short “e” in Get?

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Can You See It?

Diagram of the human ear. Outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear. In the middle ear there are three small bones that bridge the gap between the outer and inner ear. Caption: The eardrum sets up vibrations on the three little bones

Illustration of a human skull with the eyeballs still present. Caption: The human eye is an organ -- an exquisite sensory organ --

Illustration of the inner ear showing the stirrup bone and other structures. Caption: lie the fluid-filled cavities of the inner ear.

Computer screen showing the closeup of a human eye with crosshairs over the pupil. Caption: and nearly impossible to fool or spoof.

Person with a virtual reality headset on. Caption: what sorts of stimuli increase sickness or reduce it.

Robotic arms manipulating a small ball. Caption: is pushing the world of robotics and prosthetics

A snake with eyes covered. Caption: this snake strikes its prey with pinpoint precision.

Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Do We See Color?

Still image from: SciShow: The Agony of Motion Sickness

Closeup of the human eye. Caption: which regulates the amount of light entering the eye.

Diagram of sound entering the ear and being processed by the structures in the ear. Spanish captions.

Children wearing dark sunglasses against a backdrop of the beach. Spanish captions.

Long line of people waiting indoors in a hallway. Some look down at papers in their hands while others look forward.

Man in glasses sits with his hands clasped on his lap. He tilts his head and grimaces slightly while speaking. Crowded bookshelves fill the background.

$Closeup of the human eye with lines demonstrating how lights is refracted when it hits the lens. Caption: It behaves like a convex lens, bending or refracting light rays$

Slide shows light shining in a square on a black backdrop. Text reads, "The Five Senses."

Closeup of the top view of the human brain. Caption: Many of the body's mysteries lie in the brain,

Closeup of the human eye. Caption: tell us how near or far something is.

Closeup of the outside of a human brain. Caption: It's here that we take a flow of nerve impulses

Cartoon of people on the staircase at the entry of a poorly lit large house. Caption: Oh, Well, nobody home. Let's go.

Cartoon of a person pointing at glass containers with corks. Caption: Cinnamon, mint, skunk--

Close up of an eye. Caption: After light passes through your pupil, it hits your lens.

Student sits in a dark room in front of a computer monitor that displays a split screen of technical data.