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:

  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.  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, Birch Run, Michigan
Secretary: Daniel Dolan, Flushing, Michigan
Treasurer: Elmer Whaley, Birch Run, Michigan
Research Director: Don McCabe, Birch Run, Michigan
Membership Chairperson: Dr. Eldo Bergman, Texas Reading Institute, Houston, Texas
Trustee: James Hyldahl, Retired Businessman, Volunteer, Flint, Michigan
Trustee: Amy Messer, Teacher in Swartz Creek Michigan Schools
Trustee: Robert McCabe, Birch Run, Michigan

Don McCabe is the Research Director of AVKO Dyslexia & Spelling 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 $110.00 worth of gifts as a membership bonus:

  1. To Teach a Dyslexic by Don McCabe ($14.95)
  2. Two Free E-Books: The Teaching of Reading and Spelling: a Continuum from Kindergarten through College ($49.95) and Starting at Square One (A complete handwriting and keyboarding curriculum that teaches reading and spelling AS the alphabet is methodically mastered--also a $49.95 value)
  3. Complete access to all the Membership Freebies and the AVKO Newsletter.
  4. 25% Discount on all AVKO materials.

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