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In the YouTube era, “video modeling” has become the easiest and most direct way to learn new skills. From training a puppy, learning to dance, pulling a transmission, or even performing surgery, just about every skill can be mastered through short, targeted videos.

Generalization is the ability to apply something learned to other situations. If you learned to tie your shoe, can you tie a bow with a ribbon? The goal is to see progress outside of the therapy setting, such as, at home, at school, or the park – and with other people, such as grandparents, the babysitter, or a teacher.

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.

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.