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! 

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The Video CDs are for people who are comfortable using a computer (or know someone who is), don't mind watching a 27:31 minute movie on a computer, or who may wish 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).  These are both standard formats and may be played using many major media programs.  We have included RealPlayer 10 on the CD for your own ease.

You may wish to download the video files yourself for your own purposes or expediency.  This may be done by using the following links.  Clicking them should bring up a dialog box asking you how and where you would like to download the file, or if you wish to open it.  Because of their nature, they are rather sizeable files and may take a substantial amount of time on a dial-up connection.  We recommend a high-speed or LAN connection for downloading these files.

  • MPEG (.mpg) "To Teach a Dyslexic" - 280 MB

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