About
AVKO
AVKO is a
non-profit, 501(C)3 membership organization that
focuses on the development and production of
materials and especially techniques to teach reading
and spelling, handwriting (manuscript and cursive)
and keyboarding.
Mission
Statement
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. It would like to go out of
existence IF AND ONLY
IF AVKO can find another non-profit
organization that can and will achieve its 5th
mission point: "to
widely disseminate AVKO's techniques and
materials."
Officers:
President: Devorah Wolf,
retired reading teacher, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Vice-President: Michael Lane, Parent, Clio, Michigan
Secretary: Daniel Dolan, Flushing, Michigan
Treasurer: Elmer Whaley, Clio, Michigan
Research Director: Don McCabe, Birch Run, Michigan
Membership Chairperson: Dr. Eldo Bergman, Texas
Reading Institute, Houston, Texas
Trustee: Amy Messer, Teacher in Swartz Creek
Michigan Schools
Trustee: Robert McCabe, Birch Run, Michigan
Every AVKO member is eligible
for membership on the board. Those interested in
helping run the AVKO Foundation are asked to contact
Don McCabe (
DonMcCabe@aol.com )
Don McCabe is the Research
Director of AVKO Educational Research
Foundation. Read his
short biography, or better yet, his
autobiography,
To Teach a Dyslexic in which he describes
what it was in his life that enabled him, a
dyslexic, to not only learn to read but to learn how
to teach other dyslexics. This book is
free with
membership in the AVKO Foundation.
AVKO offers
free daily
tutoring, training of tutors and teachers,
free training of parents as tutors
and inservices that can be customized to your particular
needs.
Join AVKO and save.
For just $25.00 you will
receive over $180.00 worth of free e-books as a membership
bonus:
-
Five
FREE E-Books
- Volume 1 of The
Patterns of English Spelling with Their
Word Families Put into Sentence Context.
($39.95)
- To Teach a Dyslexic
($14.95)
- Starting at Square One
(A complete handwriting and keyboarding
curriculum that teaches reading and
spelling AS the alphabet is methodically
mastered--a $59.95 value)
The Teaching of Reading & Spelling: a
Continuum from Kindergarten through
College. ($59.95)
- The Reading Teacher's List of Over
5,500 Basic Spelling Words ($19.95)
-
25% discounts
-
Value: $184.75 in books
- Complete access to all
the Membership Freebies and the AVKO Newsletter.
-
+ 25% discounts on all AVKO materials.
Schools and
Institutions may join for $100.00. They will
receive the same free access to the five e-books
and a 10% discount on all orders.
We now have
a weekly newsletter
with lots of freebies
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