AVKO's Free Videos

AVKO has two different videos: one that introduces our flagship Sequential Spelling program as well as shows you how to use it and one that shows Don McCabe working with a 17 year-old dyslexic.

Watch Don McCabe as he takes a 17-year-old dyslexic through his first lesson at the AVKO Educational Research Foundation.  You will be able to watch the young man's face as he discovers that Mr. McCabe has "tricked him" into being able to read and spell instantly the word malicious!

But it's not trickery.  It's based on solid educational principles.  McCabe, a dyslexic himself, has discovered that it is the ends of "big" words that determine how the beginnings are pronounced and that it is the endings of words that often use different, albeit consistent, phonic patterns.  Isn't that nice.  But notice, notice is not not ice! 

Sequential Spelling Video:

• RealMedia (19.1 MB) - High-Speed Internet Users
      Right-click to download or paste http://www.avko.org/videos/SequentialSpellingVideo.rm into the "Open" dialog of RealPlayer

• RealMedia ( MB) - Dial-up Internet Users (Quality may be lower than other formats)
      Note: Opening the file from RealPlayer (the paste method above) will allow you to start playing the video immediately instead of waiting for the entire video to download before playing any of it.  This is highly recommended for dial-up users.

To Teach a Dyslexic Video:

• RealMedia ( MB) - High-Speed Internet Users

• RealMedia (3.24 MB) - Dial-up Internet Users (Quality may be lower than other formats)
      Right-click to download or paste http://www.avko.org/videos/TTAD_ Dialup.rm into the "Open" dialog of RealPlayer
      Note: Opening the file from RealPlayer (the paste method above) will allow you to start playing the video immediately instead of waiting for the entire video to download before playing any of it.  This is highly recommended for dial-up users.

• MPEG (273 MB) - High-Speed Internet Users

You may also request either video on a CD or a DVD if you would prefer.   

Our videos come in several formats:

• Streaming Video / Download from Site: play it now!
• DVD: may be played on any DVD player.  If DVD+R, it may not work on your computer's DVD drive; please try it on your DVD player (attached to the TV). 
• Video CD (MPEG and/or RealMedia): may be played on your computer.

The Video CDs and DVDs are great for people with slow internet connections or those who would like to show the video at a conference where getting AV equipment may be cumbersome.  The free video is on the CD in two formats: RealMedia (.rm) and MPEG (.mpg).  MPEG is a universally standard format that may be played with almost any media playing program.   The RealMedia file may be played only with RealPlayer; we have included RealPlayer 10 on the CD for your own ease.

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