In the subsequent 30 years, a few things have changed. The one student has become 50,000 students who have been directly serviced by staffs at one of the 25 learning centres and schools Michael has started or assisted in starting.

From one tutorial student, the clients expanded to include both children and adults. Adult clients with literacy issues were referred by service agencies. Injured workers began to be prepared to succeed at college level programs. Intellectually challenged adults were referred by agencies like Pathways to Independence to learn how to read. Juvenile offenders doing community service were included in remedial reading programs.

In 1982, Michael created Math Tutor, a math software system that was Scholastic's leading line of math software for 15 straight years, winning numerous awards along the way. The software was sold to thousands of schools where it was used to teach hundreds of thousands of students better math skills. Today it is known as Teach Your Children Math Well. It is currently being used by homeschoolers and foster parents to teach their children math on their home computers.

In the late 90's Michael wrote his first book, Teach Your Children Well. It won the Chapter's "Write for Canada Award" and became a bestseller. Michael was chosen National Literacy Educator of the Year in 2001. The first book led to the creation of 32 more books that teach people how to teach reading, spelling and math skills to children and adults.

The books were quickly adopted by homeschooling parents. Now on any given day, thousands of homeschooling families learn reading and math using these materials. The word then spread to those parents who have children with autism. Clinics and caregivers who provide services to these families discovered that Michael's reading materials work very well with their clients. Last month, the word reached as far away as Hong Kong and Michael went there to help set up yet another school.