Described and Captioned Media Program Newsletter


This month’s features:

October is National Bullying Prevention Month		DCMP: A Valued Resource -or- More Tools in the UDL Belt		Describing Description
Children with a disability are at greater risk. DCMP can help!		A Virginia Department of Education representative has great ideas for you!		Learn more about what description is and how it is created by DP Captioning & Multimedia Solutions.

October is National Bullying Prevention Month

DCMP has joined with PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center to help promote ways to combat this huge national problem. Visit the special DCMP Web page, Bullying: An Increased Risk for Children With a Disability,to learn more about resources for children who are deaf, blind, and deaf-blind.

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DCMP: A Valued Resource -Or- More Tools in the UDL Belt!

Captioned media is an excellent example of Universal Design for Learning, or UDL. Virginia State Department of Education's Dr. Debbie Pfeiffer has written an article in which she discusses the challenges that teachers face today (more than ever) in meeting the varied needs of their students. She talks about the value of captioning and describing media, about the wide variety of accessible media available through the DCMP, and recommends several DCMP titles to you. Her conclusion: "I now take advantage of every opportunity possible to make educators, administrators, and parents in Virginia aware of the DCMP as a valuable resource."

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Describing Description

Do you know there are 21 companies that provide description services? DCMP provides information about these companies. In this newsletter and others in coming months, we are going to feature articles written by a representative of several of these companies. This series will help readers better understand what description is, how it is created, and the relationship between DCMP and the company.

This month the spotlight is on DP Captioning & Multimedia Solutions and owner Debbie Risk. Read Describing Description, and we think you'll find her explanation of how she creates description to be very interesting. She concludes by saying "I feel privileged to have the opportunity to help make digital media accessible to everyone."

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Quick Hits
New VDRDC Web site	Dear Colleague Letter: Office of Civil Rights	New DCMP Titles!
Last month we announced the funding of a new Video Description Research and Development Center (VDRDC). The purpose of the VDRDC will be to advance the research and development of video description, as well as alternative approaches to it, and to improve the accessibility of educational program content. Visit the new VDRDC Web site to learn more!	We hope you did not miss the letter to elementary and secondary education officials which reminded readers that "schools at all levels must ensure equal access to the educational benefits and opportunities afforded by the technology and equal treatment in the use of the technology for all students, including students with disabilities."	Angry? Catch Your Anger is but one of fifty-eight new titles for DCMP members to borrow. Others include studies of important cultural influences in America, including A History of Chinese American Achievement in the United States: The Chinese American Super Achievers. Click here for the list of accessible titles in arts, biographies, counseling, health and safety, and other curricular areas.

The contents of this newsletter were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Cooperative Agreement #H327N060002.

However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Project Officer, Ernest Hairston.

The DCMP is administered by the National Association of the Deaf.