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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.

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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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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, the Captioning Key and Description Key, used worldwide.
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Find answers for your questions, including how to apply, locating media, settings for captions, audio description, and ASL, and creating Student Accounts. Help Center
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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 deaf or blind. Full membership is required for most.
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Modules

Modules are selfpaced, 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 deaf and hard of hearing viewers, 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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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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Hundreds of New Accessible Educational Videos You May Have Missed at DCMP in 2020

DCMP has added hundreds of new accessible videos and series in 2020, and you may have missed some. These lists can point you toward finding these new educational videos from many of the top content producers, including PBS Digital Studios, Teen Kids News, Litton Entertainment, the Field Museum, Bullfrog Films, PBS Learning Media, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cinefete, and Films Media Group. Check the "New Releases" feed on your Account Dashboard to keep up with all new arrivals!

Remember, you can see all the videos in a series by looking at each video's media details. Find the link for "Series." You can also click the link for "Producer" to see all the videos and series that are available from that producer.

Note: Teen Kids News episode 1731 provides students with tips for successfully completing online learning, and episode 1732 gives updates on college entrance exams related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Titles Related to COVID-19

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Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: How Evolution Made COVID-19 Our Perfect Enemy (And Why We’ll Beat It)

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: What This Chart Actually Means for COVID-19

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Why Soap Is Still Our Best Weapon Against Coronavirus

Still image from: Physics Girl: Of Course It's Scary (Candid Interview With COVID-19 ER Nurse and Epidemiologist)

Still image from: Spillover: Zika, Ebola & Beyond

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 1731)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 1732)

PBS Digital Studios

PBS Digital Studios Series

Litton Entertainment

Accessible Television Series

Described and Captioned Media Program Series

Getting a Job: For Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Introduction to "Getting a Job!"

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Your Journey

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Rights, Responsibilities, and the Law

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Role Model: Blake Lindsay

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Introduction to Vocational Rehabilitation

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Workforce Development Centers

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Overview of Social Security Benefits

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI)

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Role Model: Beth Jones

Still image from: Getting a Job for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired! Social Security Disability Insurance Programs (SSDI)

Note: The videos for Getting a Job: For Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired are part of DCMP's eLearning Module of the same name. This online training focuses on the transition from school to work and offers a series of activities, supporting documents, and topical videos designed to help the job seeker prepare for the world of work. It features several blind and low-vision role models to guide students along the path to work.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

I Contain Multitudes

Still image from: I Contain Multitudes: Solving Crimes With the Necrobiome

Still image from: I Contain Multitudes: Can a Fungus Save Plants From Global Warming?

Still image from: I Contain Multitudes: Nature's Cutest Symbiosis--The Bobtail Squid

Still image from: I Contain Multitudes: Superbugs That Resist Antibiotics Can Evolve in 11 Days

Still image from: I Contain Multitudes: How Giant Tube Worms Survive at Hydrothermal Vents

Still image from: I Contain Multitudes: Mosquitoes Might Save Lives, Thanks to Bacteria

Still image from: I Contain Multitudes: A Wasp Mom's Gift--Blankets of Bacteria

Cinefete

Zoobabu

Still image from: Zoobabu: Sloth

Still image from: Zoobabu: Hen

Still image from: Zoobabu: Reindeer

Still image from: Zoobabu: Anteater

Still image from: Zoobabu: Gorilla

Still image from: Zoobabu: Parrot

Still image from: Zoobabu: Hermit Crab

Still image from: Zoobabu: Toad

Still image from: Zoobabu: Tiger

Still image from: Zoobabu: Octopus

PBS Learning Media

PBS Learning Media Videos

Still image from: Colombian Folktale: Shepherd

Still image from: Colombian Folktale: Shepherd (Spanish)

Still image from: Conserving Historical Artifacts

Still image from: Election Foundations

Still image from: Gray Seals and People: Both Need Fish to Eat

Still image from: Great Job! Forensic Reconstruction Artist

Still image from: Ice Cores: Unlocking Past Climates--Calendar in Ice

Still image from: Mars: Candor Chasma

Still image from: Rising Up: The Talladega Murals

Still image from: Saturn's Cyclones

Still image from: Saving a Lost Language

Still image from: Tour of the Moon

Still image from: Using Color to Identify Planets

Still image from: What Hubble Taught Us About the Planets

New Dimension Media/Questar

Wow! I Never Knew That

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 1)

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 2)

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 4)

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 6)

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 7)

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 8)

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 10)

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 15)

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 17)

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 18)

Star Maths

Still image from: Star Maths: Math Symbols

Still image from: Star Maths: Number Names

Still image from: Star Maths: Ordering Whole Numbers

Still image from: Star Maths: Three-Digit Numbers

Still image from: Star Maths: Counting by Tens

Still image from: Star Maths: Counting by Hundreds

Still image from: Star Maths: Fractions

Still image from: Star Maths: Equivalent Fractions

Still image from: Star Maths: Units of Time

Still image from: Star Maths: Time--AM, PM, 24-Hour Digital

Films Media Group

Butterfly Effect

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: Alexander Becomes Great

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: Space Conquest

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: Bouvines--The Birth of the Kingdom of France

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: Confucius and Chinese Thought

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: Adrinople--Rome Against the Barbarians

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: The Internet--The Origins of the Web

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: Genghis Khan--The Empire of the Steppes

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: Darwin Discovers the World

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: Chernobyl--A Reactor Out of Control

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: Sekigahara--The Battle of the Samurai

Space Colonies and Visions of Earth

Still image from: Space Colonies: Mars

Still image from: Space Colonies: The Moon

Still image from: Space Colonies: The Next Milestone

Still image from: Visions of Earth: Exploring the Biosphere

Still image from: Visions of Earth: Exploring the Fluid Spheres

Still image from: Visions of Earth: Exploring the Geosphere

Still image from: Visions of Earth: Tool Kit for Teachers

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