Family Members as Tutors

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Speaker: Don McCabe, Noted Author of To Teach a Dyslexic and The Patterns of English Spelling

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Participants will learn:

1. That no school system will ever have the financial ability to provide one-to-one daily tutoring for the 10-15 percent of the student population that need one-to-one.
2. That most parents will never have the financial ability to hire private tutors to provide the DAILY one-to-one tutoring that their children may require.
3. That most parents can learn to acquire the patience and the teaching skills necessary to be successful tutors of their children.

4. That even if most parents cannot learn to acquire the patience and the teaching skills necessary to be successful tutors of their children, the MINORITY would can learn to tutor their children have RIGHTS, too. If we have adult education course for the small minority who want to learn flower arrangement, cake decorating, belly dancing, bridge, typing, etc., we should have courses for the MINORITY who want to learn how to help their own children learn to read and write.

Participants will receive special AVKO handouts that will:

1. enable them to establish an Adult Community Education Course without upsetting the teachers and the educational establishment.

2. provide them with flexible lesson plans for the course. Click here for description of lesson plans.
3. learn how to help parents help students learn without having to study word lists and without having to copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy. Click here for the first six lessons that can be downloaded.

The AVKO Challenge and Guarantee

Participants may watch a demonstration in which a student (or students) of their choice learn to spell a difficult word such as scattered, psychology, or malicious. Your choice! They will learn to spell whichever word they select without once seeing the word, without studying the word, without writing it seven times. This is guaranteed. If Don McCabe cannot get the students you selected to do this, AVKO will refund the entire cost of the inservice.

And Now the Surprise!
The Low, Low cost of AVKO Inservices

Cost: $600.00 a day, plus expenses. Grants available.

Grants of up to $300.00 available to school systems that can demonstrate a need for financial assistance.

Grants of up to $500.00 available to home school support groups, adult literacy organizations such as local chapters of the International Dyslexia Association, the Learning Disabilities Association, Literacy Volunteers of America, Laubach Literacy, Michigan Literacy, Reading Reform Foundation, the Right to Read Foundation, and any independent local literacy group or homeschooling organization.

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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 48415-9404. 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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Don McCabe, Research Director

AVKO Spelling & Dyslexia Research Foundation
3084 Willard Road, Suite W
Birch Run, MI 48415-9404