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Gemiini isn’t just for kids learning to speak. In addition to effectively treating children with ASD, Down syndrome, and apraxia/dyspraxia, we’re finding that it is also effective at treating adult stroke patients and helping them get their language back.

Speech apraxia, as it is called in the U.S., is a motor speech disorder. People have problems saying sounds, syllables, and words. This is not because of muscle weakness or paralysis. The brain has problems planning to move the body parts (e.g., lips, jaw, tongue) needed for speech.This may be caused by a connection problem between the mouth and brain. Since a child who has apraxia doesn’t talk, the condition is often interpreted as a cognitive problem.

Some parents even experience short-term memory loss, loss of appetite, and depression, so even day-to-day existing can be difficult at first. As a parent wraps his or her mind around the diagnosis, the internet will be one of the first stops for information. Online research can be confusing because there's so much contradictory information and it can be overwhelming.

We post a lot of testimonials from parents who see fast results from using Gemiini. Sometimes a child even speaks after the first day. That’s great, but some parents see those testimonials and quit because their own children don’t respond as fast.

Sometimes a mom's words are the most powerful. Here's the story of Olivia's experience with Gemiini, as told by her superhero mom, Christine H. "My daughter Olivia is now 7.5 years old with a diagnosis of Down syndrome and apraxia (and from 2012 to 2014 she was on chemo for leukemia treatment). Apraxia has been very hard for her. She has struggled to say sounds and words!

You've probably read the testimonials on our website and on our Facebook page from parents who are thrilled to see an almost instant improvement in their children after starting Gemiini. While that certainly does happen, and quite often, it's also common for a child to take longer and appear to be making no progress at all.