I am currently tutoring 18 students, ages 8 to 17, with much success and tears — tears of happiness at the positive change in these children’s lives.

One boy drew me a chart yesterday, showing me that he was at the bottom of his class last year in reading and is now at the top.

Another boy is in a behavior disorder school and was unable to read — period. Not only is he in Lesson 4 of Level 3, but his behavior has changed drastically as well.

A high school junior who struggled to make C’s and D’s his freshman year now has A’s and 2 B+’s and plans to go to college.

I could go on and on.

The first 2 weeks of 3rd grade the lightbulb went off for me. My daughter was never going to magically “catch up” developmentally. After about 10,000 flash cards, she was still spelling “of ” as “uv” and becoming depressed.

Thanks to a great friend who immediately turned me on to Barton and an amazing Barton tutor, she is now a thriving and school-loving 6th grader.

Still reads slowly, but loves to read challenging books and has great comprehension.

There is hope, and I am so very grateful to Susan Barton.

My tutoree went from a DRA of 3 of 16 in 4.5 months from using Barton.