I am a 5th grade teacher. Early this year, I discovered your website, then arranged for a member of your Speakers Bureau to give an inservice on dyslexia to our teachers. It was a huge success.

I then wrote and received a Great Ideas Grant from the Educational Foundation of Indian River County and got the Barton System. I started tutoring two 5th grade boys, who had made little or no progress on school reading and spelling assessments, for 30 minutes every day before school.

In less than 3 months, Student A’s Oral Reading Fluency rate increased from 63 to 102. Student B’s rate increased from 53 to 91.

Their spelling also improved. Student A went from averaging 48% on his weekly spelling tests (an F) to 82%. Student B is now getting 100% on many of his weekly spelling tests.

Their parents are so excited and encouraged. For the first time, I am actually looking forward to receiving the FCAT results for the students in my class.