Bridge Produces Accessibility for Children’s COVID-19 Special, Available Free On-Demand

Each year Bridge produces hundreds of hours of curriculum standards-aligned audio description for children’s television with partial funding from the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Won’t You Sing Along with Me? was specially prepared to help young children understand the COVID-19 crisis.

Bridge Multimedia and the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) are excited to announce that the special COVID-19 episode of PBS KIDS’ Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Won’t You Sing Along with Me? is now available, on demand at no cost, for children with disabilities through the U.S. Department of Education’s (“ED”) Accessible Television Portal, administered by DCMP.

This timely episode, titled: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Won’t You Sing Along with Me?  was audio described by Bridge Multimedia with funding from ED’s Office of Special Education Programs. It joins DCMP’s growing library of thousands of free family and classroom programs, augmented with audio description and captioning for viewers with sensory and cognitive impairments. The Accessible Television Portal offers online streaming of TV shows from Litton Entertainment, WNET, Fred Rogers Productions, Nickelodeon, Universal Kids, and others. The portal also features Spanish language programs from Telemundo, PBS and others.

DCMP and the Accessible Television Portal are serving an important need during the COVID-19 crisis, with the sign-up rate tripling in 2020. The Daniel Tiger special, with its Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) aligned audio description, speaks to challenges faced by all children during these times. Thank you to OSEP and to our production partners, Fred Rogers Productions, 9 Story Media Group, and PBS KIDS for showing their continued commitment to inclusion by making this particularly meaningful Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood episode available on the Accessible Television Portal.

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