We create learning experiences that accommodate diverse learning styles and needs.
Our academic, career development, and workplace training programs offer:
- content provided in multiple formats, text, audio, and multi-media to specifically address the needs of learners with disabilities and learning style preferences.
- online classrooms to provide practical, group-based and facilitator-led instruction from your home or mobile device, ideal for non-traditional students who are balancing learning goals with work and family.
We are committed to providing opportunities for students to achieve educational, career and personal goals.
OUR COURSES
Write for Business
This course develops the business writing skills of job-seekers and working professionals. Participants engage in targeted exercises focusing on the development of clear and concise text. The program reviews basic grammar, writing style(s) and structure, critical thinking, and editing skills. Write for Business can be delivered on-site or via web-based technologies.
Interviewing Skills
Students and job-seekers learn how to quickly and thoughtfully answer difficult questions. Participants rehearse how to educate a potential employer about workplace adaptations, accommodations, and assistive technology. Participants practice effective self-presentation and self-advocacy skills. Virtual role plays and constructive feedback are essential tools of this program.
New York State Commission for the Blind’s Pre-College Program
Echoes Instructional is pleased to join the New York State Commission for the Blind for a multi-year Pre-College Program. Participants will spend their summer vacation on campus immersed in a simulated college experience. All students will join Echoes Instructional Design for online Writing and Technology courses developed and taught by our professors. Contact your NYCB counselor for more information.
Technologically Empowered College Students (TECS)
TECS is designed to improve the “Informational Literacy” skills critical for success in higher education, including:
– technological know-how
– critical analysis of content
– organization and synthesis of information
Developmental Writing Seminar
Q. Which college classes are often described as frustrating, time-consuming, and costly by students, parents, and counselors alike?
A: Non-credit bearing remedial English class
The Developmental Writing Seminar is designed specifically to assess and remediate the writing skills of sponsored clients who are applying to college, before they take their placement exam.
Courses Designed with You in Mind
Accessible
- Developed expressly to work with assistive technologies.
- Eliminate physical, geographic, and other barriers to access.
Interactive & Interpersonal
- Live weekly discussions enhance group development and motivation.
- Students gain confidence as they acquire new skills.
- Instructors, mentors, and program alumni share their challenges and achievements with each group, enabling students to identify and envision their personal goals.
Skill-Based
- “Information Literacy” skills are improved through immersion in our fully accessible online learning environment.
- Specific instruction (one-to-one or small group) regarding the selection and use of popular web applications with assistive technologies enables students to get online in less time and with less frustration.
- Challenging new skills are practiced and students receive individualized, constructive feedback.
- Methods of instruction and technologies used in our classes are selected based on accessibility, recognized best practices in education, recommendations from experts and/or demonstrated effectiveness in the online learning setting.