A free-loan program provides educational media for students with a vision or hearing loss. The Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) offers audio description and captioning via CD-ROM, DVD, and online streaming.

K-12 teachers and school administrators who teach one or more students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind simply need to reigister at http://www.dcmp.org/. That will give access to over 5,000 captioned media titles and 300 programs.

Media items can be shipped to the school or to the home, or they can be viewed directly online. Programs can be viewed with captioning, audio description, or both, with select titles captioned in Spanish. The DCMP Media Library is constantly growing to give teachers an ever-expanding selection of accessible educational media.

There are more than 1.5 million children in U.S. schools whose learning is impacted by a vision or hearing loss. DCMP strives for inclusiveness for all students and equal opportunity for success. The DCMP is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the National Association for the Deaf.

Source: DCMP press release: A Revolutionary Resource in Classroom Accessibility Free-Loan Media Program for Deaf and Blind Students