Services

The DCMP provides services designed to support and improve the academic achievement of students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind.

The Library

Free-loan described and captioned educational media is available to students who are deaf, blind, hard of hearing, visually impaired, or deaf-blind. This educational media is made accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing via captioning and to the blind and visually impaired via description. With over 4,000 titles (and growing!) available for viewing, the DCMP is continuing to provide equal accessibility to these students and the professionals who serve them.

The Clearinghouse

The DCMP offers a clearinghouse of information related to education, accessibility, deafness, blindness, and other related topics. This clearinghouse is available to everyone. Read about what people are saying about the DCMP. Learn about captioning, description, laws pertaining to accessibility, assistive technology, and an array of other subjects – all at your fingertips. Start browsing and start learning.

The Gateway

Internet resources related to accessibility are at your fingertips. The DCMP would like to introduce its gateway, which will allow you to selectively search across our entire clearinghouse of accessibility-related articles.

The DCMP gateway will search the following partner sites (links open in new windows):

• National Association of the Deaf (NAD) http://www.nad.org/
• Deaf Education (DeafEd) http://www.deafed.net/
• National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) http://ncam.wgbh.org/
• Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) http://www.cast.org/
• American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org/
• The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (DB-LINK) http://www.dblink.org/
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) http://www.nichcy.org/
• Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults (HKNC) http://www.hknc.org/

You can also choose from several other search options, such as restricting results to those on the DCMP Web site, the DCMP media collection, or from "Other Videos," which gives you immediate search results of media available for purchase from the largest database of accessible media in the world.

The Center for Training and Evaluation

The center for the training and evaluation of any service provider desiring to appear on the U.S. Department of Education–approved lists of description and captioning service providers is available through the DCMP. Do you want to learn more about captioning and/or description? How about the evaluation? Check out the center for more information.

There are no user-registration or service fees. The DCMP is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the National Association of the Deaf.