AVKO Workshop #9 Breaking the Cycle by
Teaching Parents How to Tutor Their Own Children

Speaker:  Don McCabe, Noted Author of To Teach a Dyslexic and The Patterns of English Spelling

Participants will learn:

• 1.   That no school system will ever have the financial ability to provide one-to-one daily tutoring for the 10-15 percent of the student population that need one-to-one.
  

• 2.  That most parents will never have the financial ability to hire private tutors to provide the DAILY one-to-one tutoring that their children may require.
  

• 3.   That most parents can learn to acquire the patience and the teaching skills necessary to be successful tutors of their children.

• 4.   That even if most parents cannot learn to acquire the patience and the teaching skills necessary to be successful tutors of their children, the MINORITY would can learn to tutor their children have RIGHTS, too.  If we have adult education courses for the small minority who want to learn flower arrangement, cake decorating, belly dancing, bridge, typing, etc., we should have courses for the MINORITY who want to learn how to help their own children learn to read and write.

Participants will receive  special AVKO handouts that will:

• 1.  enable them to establish an Adult Community Education Course without upsetting the teachers and the educational establishment.

• 2.  provide them with flexible lesson plans for the course.   Click here for description of lesson plans.
  

• 3.  learn how to help parents help students learn without having to study word lists and without having to copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy.   Click here for the first six lessons that can be downloaded.

And Now the Surprise!
    The Low, Low cost of AVKO Inservices

• Cost:  $600.00 a day, plus expenses.  Grants available.

• Grants of up to $300.00 available to school systems that can demonstrate a need for financial assistance.

• Grants of up to $500.00 available to adult literacy organizations such as local chapters of The International Dyslexia Association, The International Reading Association, The Learning Disabilities Association, Literacy Volunteers of America, Laubach Literacy, Michigan Literacy, Reading Reform Foundation, the Right to Read Foundation, and any independent local literacy group or Homeschooling organization.