Equal Access In The Classroom

Every student deserves equal access to learning opportunities. The Described and Captioned Media Program focuses on those classrooms having students with broad differences in their ability to see and hear. Description and captioning make educational media accessible to these students. This production: (a) defines and provides examples of description and captioning; (b) provides teacher testimony supporting the need for these accessibility options in educational media; and (c) overviews the services provided by the DCMP, including our free-loan library of accessible media. For more information concerning the DCMP, visit our web site at http://www.dcmp.org. To learn more about accessible media, order a DVD version of this production, or to view this production with description, visit the Equal Access In the Classroom section of the DCMP site at http://www.dcmp.org/equalaccess .

Category:

Education

Tags:

• captioning
• description
• deaf
• blind
• deafness
• blindness
• captions
• audio description
• video description
• DCMP
• CMP

[WildKatSpeaking]

I've been blind since birth. When I was in school we watched plenty of "educational videos". I missed out on most of what was happening. No one really thought that there would be any issues because after all, I could hear what was happening.

Even with TV shows and DVD's now most are not described.

[dcmpnad]

@WildKatSpeaking Thanks for your compelling testimony about the state of educational video, both now and in the last few decades.

[gskeesee]

I find it interesting that the video is discussing accessibility but fails to provide a transcript for the visually impaired.

[verUnique]

what about those deaf students who can't read?

[vickiefranklin]

Welcome to Youtube.Lets get the word out! Smiles

Vickie

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