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AVKO Educational
Research Foundation AVKO comes from Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic, & Oral a multi-sensory approach.
We have all seen student papers with sentences such as this: "Thair gonna go thair to git sum stuff fur holloween, an were gonna go thair to hlep them." This sentence came from a paper written by a high school student who was carrying a 3.5 grade point average. He had A's in physics and calculus. But he was struggling through my English class. When my Alfred N. turned in his first paper, I wasn't really sure whether he was a genius at abusing our spelling conventions like George Bernard Shaw who could spell fish "ghoti" or whether he had been high on drugs when he wrote it and never bothered proofreading. The entire paper was almost impossible for anybody but a teacher to read. But Alfred's problem isn't unique. Large numbers of students in both urban and rural schools suffer from the "Thair gonna go thair" syndrome. Some students suffer from the swallowed "R" bug and consistently write:
Others suffer from the swallowed "is" bug and consistently write:
Those who have the "of" bug consistently write:
Goals of the Speech to Spelling program 1. Students will be able to recognize the differences and the similarities between spoken English and written English. 2. Students will learn to appreciate and understand the values of all spoken dialects including their own. 3. Students will learn to develop personal responsibility for correcting and learning from their mistakes at the time that they make mistakes. 4. Students will learn that writers often deliberately misspell words and phrases for humorous or dramatic effect, and often to indicate that the speaker is poorly educated.
For a free download of Lesson One, so you can try it before you buy it click here.
All donations are greatly appreciated. If you would like to support our mission which is to raise the level of literacy to the point where the words, illiteracy, phonemic awareness, learning disabilities, dysgraphia, family literacy, adult literacy, and illegible handwriting will no longer have relevance, please mail your tax-deductible check (in U.S. dollars) to The AVKO Foundation, 3084 Willard Road, Suite W, Birch Run, MI 48415-7801. The AVKO Foundation is recognized by the IRS as a 501(C)3 publicly supported organization working with teachers, parents, tutors, and home schooling parents, publishing materials developed by its research, and providing free daily tutoring at its local reading clinic. If you have comments about this website or questions concerning spelling, phonics, learning disabilities, homeschooling, etc., you may always e-mail DonMcCabe@aol.com. We appreciate any comments that will help us make this website even more useful.
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