National Association of the Deaf
NAD Announces DCMP (former CMP) is Very Much Alive!
A News Release from the National Association of the Deaf Release Date: For Immediate Release
Contact: Anita B. Farb
Email: www.nad.org/contactus
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Silver Spring, MD – The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) announces that rumors about the closing of the the Caption Media Program are not true. The Captioned Media Program (CMP) is not closing!
The CMP has been renamed the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) and now serves K-12 students who are deaf, hard of hearing as well as blind or visually impaired. The NAD was awarded a new five year agreement to continue the distribution of described and captioned media in October, 2006 (See: www.nad.org/nadcoopagreementpr)
A change in this new five year agreement mandates that all new educational media must be captioned and described (See: www.cfv.org/flyers/dcmp/nadf301.pdf) . Another change from the previous agreement is that libraries in residential schools and in other locations will no longer mail media to registered clients. All mailing will occur from one centralized library called the National Accessible Learning Center (NALC), in Oklahoma (See: http://www.cfv.org/caai/nadh6.pdf and www.cfv.org/caai/nadh182.pdf)
And there are other changes that have occurred in recent years, as well as current changes:
The ancestor of the DCMP was Captioned Films for the Deaf (CFD) which began in 1958 as a program to caption movies for adults. As federal law mandated the captioning of TV and as home videos became closed-captioned, DCMP changed and movies have not been part of the program’s offerings for some time.
The DCMP is an educational program focusing on students in K-12 programs and their families. x The U. S. Department of Education priority for this program is that the program is to “…be used in classroom settings by students with hearing or vision impairments and teachers and paraprofessionals who are directly involved in elementary or secondary classroom activities for these students”. This is consistent with mandates of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), under which DCMP is now funded. Therefore, there will be no DCMP media loan services for post-secondary students or adults.
Media formats continue to change. The federal captioned media program originally provided 16mm films and then changed to VHS format. Technology again progressed and media is now provided in DVD format.
It should be noted that the DCMP plays a vital role in providing captioning information, advocacy, training, and evaluation continues to flourish and will now be expanded to include description for visually impaired users. DCMP is virtually the only national resource for these services.
In addition to the above, there are continued exciting initiatives to deliver captioned media through Internet streaming (several hundred titles are available now) and other initiatives to bring teachers of blind and deaf students into the cutting edge of technology and equal access!
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About NAD
The National Association of the Deaf, founded in 1880, safeguards the civil rights of deaf and hard of hearing Americans. As a national federation of state associations, individual members, and organizational and corporate affiliates, the advocacy work of the NAD encompasses a broad spectrum of areas including, but not limited to, accessibility, education, employment, healthcare, mental health, rehabilitation, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. More information is available online at www.nad.org
About DCMP
The Described and Captioned Media Program provides the nation’s largest free-loan educational described and captioned media library. DCMP acts as an accessible media information center, maintaining a database for use by those who are searching for accessible media, captioning and description agencies or wanting to learn to caption themselves. DCMP, administered by the National Association of the Deaf, is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. More information is available online at www.dcmp.org
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