AVKO Educational Research Founda

AVKO Educational Research Foundation
A non-profit organization devoted to helping
teachers, parents, and researchers since 1974

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AVKO comes from Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic, & Oral a multi-sensory approach.

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For Classroom Teachers looking for ways to help those students who just don't seem to learn like the others.

For Parents and Home Schoolers looking for ways to help their children learn to read, write, spell, and enjoy!

For Directors of Adult Literacy Programs

For an online Catalog of AVKO's Materials for the teaching of reading,

For Inservices and Workshops to train tutors, teachers, and parents in the AVKO methods.

Don McCabe's 2007 speaking engagements and exhibits of AVKO materials

March 17, Home-Schooling Works Book Fair, Farmington Hills, Mich.

March 22-24 Cincinnati HomeSchool Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio.

April 13-14 MACHE, Rochester, Minnesota

April 20-21 MACHE, Frederick, Maryland

May 4-5, INCH, Lansing, Michigan

On May 8-10 A Special AVKO Workshop was held in Beaufort, SC for Homeschoolers with dyslexic and/or dysgraphic children.

May 18-19, Arkansas Homeschool Convention, Searcy, AR

June 8-9, SouthEast Texas Homeschooling Association, Houston TX

August 3-4 Southeast Homeschool Expo, Atlanta, GA

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For the Research behind AVKO's approach to the teaching of reading, spelling, handwriting, for curriculum coordinators, university professors, college students, educational researchers, and the U.S. Department of Education.

For FREE Information on reading/spelling related topics, including dyslexia and many free samples of AVKO products

The AVKO Educational Research Foundation founded in 1974 has as its mission the following:

To determine what makes the learning of reading and spelling so difficult for some and so easy for others.
To determine what it is about our language that good readers learn without being taught that poor readers don't.
To determine whether or not that which poor readers don't learn is ever systematically taught and if it isn't, if it can be.
To devise techniques and materials to enable teachers (or parents) to systematically teach poor readers and/or poor spellers that which schools presently are not teaching.
To widely disseminate its discoveries of techniques and materials that enable dyslexics to learn to read and to spell.

The AVKO Educational Research Foundation has achieved the first four points of its mission. AVKO would like to go out of existence and leave all its assets to a viable 501(C)3 nonprofit organization that can and will achieve AVKO's 5th mission point: to widely disseminate AVKO's techniques and materials.

We are also looking for a publisher who is interested in making a lot of money and in the process helping millions of children learn to read. See our Prospectus for Publishers.

More About AVKO, its mission, its free tutoring, workshops

Goals AVKO has achieved:

We have found out what poor spellers and poor readers (particularly those with dyslexia and/or dysgraphia) need to be taught and what techniques and materials will help teachers and parents do a better job of helping students learn to read and spell. Over 75% of the words dyslexics cannot read contain phonic patterns never taught in regular schools. Conversely, over 75% of words containing these patterns cannot be read by dyslexics. We have categorized these patterns and organized them for easy teaching. Want proof? Click here.

Officers & Staff:

Devorah Wolf, President, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Don McCabe, Research Director, Birch Run, Michigan
Aaron Miller, Vice-President, Hernando, Florida
Dan Dolan, Secretary, Flushing, Michigan
Elmer Whaley, Treasurer, Birch Run, Michigan
Amy Messer, Director of Adult Literacy programs, Flint, Michigan
Eldo Bergman, M.D., Membership Chairperson, Houston Texas
Michael Lane, Trustee, Birch Run, Michigan
Molly Field, Web Coordinator, Birch Run, Michigan
James Hyldahl, Public Relations, Flint, Michigan
Robert McCabe, Trustee, Birch Run, Michigan
Ann McCabe, Trustee, Birch Run, Michigan

WHAT BUGS YOU?

Does anything on this website bug you? Nothing is too small or too big. If there is something we can fix, Just let us know.

If you have comments about this website or questions concerning spelling, invented spelling, whole language, 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.

Call: Toll Free 1-866-285-6612
Fax: (810) 686-1101
E-mail: Webmaster: avkoemail@aol.com
or Write:
Research Director
AVKO Educational Research Foundation 3084 Willard Road, Suite W Birch Run, MI 48415-7801

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 Educational Research 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 homeschooling parents, publishing materials developed by its research, and providing free daily tutoring at its local reading clinic.