Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for creating such a wonderful system for teaching spelling and reading to people with dyslexia.

Our daughter struggled with reading through first grade. Her teacher and the school’s reading specialist said she just needed to try harder. Then they recommended she get tutoring at Sylvan. That didn’t help.

A few months into second grade, we knew something was wrong. The school did not respond in a timely manner to our requests for testing, so we had her tested privately. We learned that she is dyslexic. We were very worried about her future. She is very bright, so it was disheartening to see her struggle with school work and become turned off by school.

After learning more about dyslexia, we decided to hire a Certified Barton tutor. Our daughter has made slow but steady progress in her year-and-a-half of twice-a-week private tutoring.

In September, we applied to get her into a private school. The staff at the new school was concerned about her dyslexia, so two teachers tested her. Happily, she passed and was accepted. One of the teachers commented that her reading was better than many others in her future fourth-grade class.

Not only is our daughter able to read at grade level now, but her spelling has improved dramatically. Instead of getting 20% scores like she did in second and third grade, she is averaging 80% on fourth-grade spelling tests.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for creating such a wonderful system for teaching spelling and reading to people with dyslexia.

Also, thank you for helping to educate us about dyslexia. Understanding dyslexia has made it much easier to deal with it in practical ways. We now know that dyslexics can have a great future.

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