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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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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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A turtle swimming underwater. Spanish Caption: Cuando ellos, hicimos monitoreo en Lopez,

A turtle and a school of small fish swimming underwater. Spanish Caption: O sea, no hay bases tecnicas ni biologicas

A device mounted on a turtle swimming in sea. Spanish Caption: y meintras empecemos a hacer contactos con pescadores

Trace holds reusable bottles and coffee mugs in his hands. Caption: I think reusable bottles might be bad for the environment,

Illustration of the sun sending heat into space and that heat hitting the Earth. Caption: So how is the sun able to heat the earth?

Still image from: Vultures for Kids

A swiftly moving river. Caption: more demand for water, greater impacts,

Tires, plastic bags, and other trash float or land at the bottom of an underwater habitat while fish swim through. Text reads, "Water Pollution."

A bear in a river.

Still image from: Whales for Kids

Still image from: What Killed the Whale?

Still image from: What's Up? Books for a Better Earth With Holiday House, Dana Alison Levy & Roxie Munro

Still image from: What's Wild: Bottlenose Dolphin

Still image from: What's Wild: Gopher Tortoise

Still image from: What's Wild: Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

Illustration of a tube with some internal structures and a rod through the center. Caption: When you make the generator turn,

A tall evergreen tree as seen from below. Caption: You can grow all the trees you need.

Still image from: Why Should I Care? Invasive Species--Plants

Still image from: Why Should I Care? Recycling

Still image from: Wild About Animals: An Orphaned Anteater, Gibbons, and Elephants

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Queensland and the Australian Outback

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Seattle, Washington

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Spanish Mustangs and Sheltered Animals

Still image from: Wild About Animals: The Pacific Northwest

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

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Zoos, Aquariums, and Research

Black and white bird with a red spot on its head holds a seed while standing on a branch. Caption: The trees are used as a storehouse for a quick meal.

A herd of bison with a few young ones on a brown, grassy plain. Caption: A year later, the first offspring were born--

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

Closeup of a frog. Caption: The bullfrog has turned out to be just an eating machine.

Large fish with a white underbelly and gray upper body. Caption: known as the underwater panda of China.

Sand beach dotted with rocks. Caption: His next expedition is down to the shore to observe

Adult primate with a baby on its back swinging from the trees. Caption: The animals depend on the plants to survive,

Person walking in front of an oxen pulling a cart through a forest. Caption: Unwittingly, we may be consuming Borneo to death.

Person playing with pandas. Caption: China is committed to saving its best-known species.

A bat hanging upside down in a cage. Caption: These young bats have lost their mothers

Person crouching and using a brush to expose an item in the dirt. Caption: The team has already brought up thousands of artifacts,

Bird with wings spread on a nest. Caption: The parent will care for that chick up to three years.

A pair of white bird with black head and back and an orange beak sit in on a mossy rock. Caption: returning to land in the spring to rear a single chick.

Closeup of a jaguar. Caption: Jaguars need wilderness, safe territory,

Items such as broken lighters, bottle caps, plastic pieces, and other unidentifiable debris arranged in a circle. Caption: (female) I took everything in Shed Bird's stomach and arranged it.

A horse with patchy fur, visible ribs, and a short mane grazing in a field. Caption: They were severely emaciated and debilitated

Seal breaking the surface of the water and diving downward. Caption: with less than 600 seals remaining in the wild.

A monkey walking on all fours across a tree branch. Caption: a monkey named Tessa is the new girl in town.

A nutria crouching in a pile of brush and eating. Caption: and they're wreaking environmental havoc.

A kayak is about to go over a small waterfall on a river lined by lush greenery. Caption: The kayaking is phenomenal.

People walking through green bushes with a building in the background. Caption: (female) this is a place where wildlife reigns.

A sloth hangs from a tree. Caption: They survive by moving slowly and sleeping a lot,

Person kneeling next to a covered cage. Caption: they're after the black-footed rock-wallaby, or warru--

A bison eats from a pile of hay. Caption: The animals will be the foundation of a herd.

Elephants of various sizes in natural habitat. Caption: (narrator) But Fay also found animals that are thriving…

A flat, spotted fish blends in almost perfectly with the ocean floor. Caption: As a result, the flounder population is recovering.

Two furry animals fight each other. Caption: But these devils may be in a losing battle.

Forest fire burns trees. Overlaid text tells about different fires in the U,S and Canada and how many acres each one burned.

Still image from: Wish You Were Here: A Century of Missouri State Parks

Person crouching and checking the air pressure on the tire of a vehicle. Caption: Keep your tires properly inflated.

Still image from: World Oceans Day

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Animal Coexistence

Small monkey in a tree gazes upward.

Surfer rides a massive wave in a deep blue ocean.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Forests

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Future Energy

Attached to a fence, a large sign features the silhouette of a kiwi. It reads, “Kiwi live here. Please help us keep them safe.” Below is a smaller sign that says, “This beach is home to ground-nesting birds.”

Ominous shark swims amongst a school of fish in the ocean.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Marine Restoration

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: New England

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Planet Rescue

Student leans over an open laptop on a desk while typing.

In the desert, a cloud darkens rows of solar panels lined up as far as the eye can see.

Teenage student crouches next to an orange bucket, holding a sample bottle. Her classmate works behind her along the rocky landscape.

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Growing Food

At a recycling center, two people stand in front of a conveyor belt that transports plastic waste.

Inside a lab, we see a scientist working with a green plant.

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Water

Still image from: Xploration Life 2.0: Ark of the Future