Audio description (AD) provides verbal descriptions of visual elements of a movie, television show, or other videos. Find out more in the Bridges Resource Library’s About Audio Description entry.
Curated Audio Described Educational Videos from DCMP
A great source for FREE professional AD videos is the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP). DCMP is funded by a U.S. Department of Education grant, and it contains many professionally-described videos related to education.
Qualifying students may have individual accounts. After registering, their teachers can even assign videos to qualifying students through DCMP.
On DCMP, you may search by:
- GRADE LEVEL
- Preschool – kindergarten
- Grades 1-3
- Grades 4-6
- Grades 7-8
- Grades 9-12, and/or
- Adults & educators
- ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES
- English captioned
- English described
- Spanish captioned
- Spanish described, and/or
- ASL
- CONTENT FORMAT
- Streaming media and/or
- Physical media (available via mail)
- RUNTIME
- Up to 10 minutes
- 10 minutes to 30 minutes
- 30 minutes to 1 hour, and/or
- More than 1 hour
Contact the Bridges Helpdesk for More Information
- Our Accessible web form
- Email: Helpdesk@imagemd.org
- Text: Send to: (410) 357-1546
- Voice mail: Call (410) 357-1546, leave a voice mail message, and we will return your call
This unique project is being coordinated through The IMAGE Center of Maryland, a center for independent living in Towson, and it is funded by a grant from the Maryland Department of Education Division of Special Education/Early Intervention Services.
Updated as of September 29, 2023.