I convinced our assistant superintendent to let me spend my Title 1 money to buy the first four levels of the Barton Reading & Spelling System.

I have been Lindamood-Bell trained, trained by Denver Academy in F.A.S.T., and have attended many other Orton-Gillingham training seminars and classes. But your system is absolutely brilliant.

My aide and I have been ‘high fiving’ each other every day when we use your explicit, systematic, sequential program and see it work before our eyes!

You have hit every nail on the head, and you’ve assimilated all of the best practices into your program.

The best part is that you’ve made it so accessible and easy that I can train my aides to teach any student we get.

I know you’ve heard this many times, Susan, but I can’t wait until I can order the rest of the system. It is the best out there.

I am currently using the Barton Reading & Spelling System at the middle school level with several students who have reading difficulties related to dyslexia. Our school district has been trying hard to find ways to address the needs of our special education and non-special education students with reading delays.

Thankfully, because of the progress our “pilot” students have made, our superintendent has given permission to purchase the program for all of the schools in the district.

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.