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At Gemiini, we like to disguise the line between work and play – especially if your learner resists buckling down and working with the Language Pyramid Videos.

We learn by imitation all the time – at a yoga class, watching a cooking channel, taking dance lessons, or even getting styling tips from a hairdresser. Children begin to imitate at the earliest ages. A child might bang on a drum, push a toy car, clap hands, or wave bye-bye.

The Gemiini program is distinguished by Discrete Video Modeling, its unique learning approach. If you learn a dance step or a yoga posture from YouTube, that is also “video modeling,” but Discrete Video Modeling (DVM) is different. DVM uses isolation (cutting out the background), repetition, and generalization to communicate directly to the learning part of the brain.

Gemiini is celebrating Acceptance Month, a movement among advocacy organizations to increase understanding, acceptance, and support for people with autism.

Societies have a long history of intolerance toward the atypical. Great artists, musicians, and thinkers have always exhibited “non-normative” personality traits. Famous people ranging from Michelangelo to Emily Dickinson and Bill Gates are rumored to have Asperger’s.

One of the most heated topics in autism is whether some children outgrow their diagnosis. Deborah Fein, a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, calls this the ‘optimal outcome.’ This small group of children who achieved an optimal outcome has spawned several studies to determine what factors set these children apart.