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.

 

Mission Statement

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

  1. To determine what makes the learning of reading and spelling so difficult for some and so easy for others.
  2. To determine what it is about our language that good readers learn without being taught that poor readers don't.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 helps millions of children learn to read.  See our Prospectus for Publishers.

All donations are greatly appreciated.  If you would like to support our mission 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 home schooling parents, publishing materials developed by its research, and providing free daily tutoring at its local reading clinic.

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Research Director

AVKO Educational Research Foundation
3084 Willard Road, Suite W
Birch Run, MI 48415-7801