I saw these kids in June at the end of school and they started using GemIIni over the summer. I can’t believe the improvement they made over summer! I have been working with some of them for 3 years and to see them talking now is incredible

I have been working with these kinds of kids for 4 years, and when you see them struggling every day to make such small gains that it so wonderful and brings tears to your eyes to see them learn so fast with GemIIni.

I like a team approach and that is always the most beneficial for the children. When you can have teachers, therapists and parents all working together using GemIIni we have seen the most progress. I also have varied abilities in my classroom. Some children are here only for articulation needs are others completely non-verbal. With GemIIni I can create a session to target all of my kids at the same time…it is so easy to use and works so well! Since we started using GemIIni in the class I can’t wait to get to school every day to see what amazing thing they are going to do next

Just wanted to thank you and your team for your enthusiasm and work with our team. I had an experience with one of my students that helped me see the power of Gemiini in a way I hadn’t experienced before. All I can say is “WOW”! With the right kiddo and the right coach helping navigate the system, the possibilities are quite exciting. This nonverbal little boy was repeating the entire sequence of the bubbles social script minus the words…most of the gestures were spot on. And it was the social scripts that piqued his interest, not the lessons about specific words/vocabulary. Quite fun to watch as a clinician! Stay tuned…this will be a fun ride for everyone I have a feeling.

My classes are getting into this Gemiini thing! The seventh grade class laughed at the spelling/vocabulary videos, and I thought they considered it dorky. Then they said, "Oh, no. We like this!" I was going to have them do the game in pairs, but they asked if they couldn't do it as a class on Tuesdays using the projector! That will work better than in groups. About a half hour after we'd finished, I heard one of them repeating "aquatic" to himself, slowly and carefully. His brain was repeating what he'd heard even many minutes afterwards... this should be helpful!”

The Gemiini DVM program is amazing. My son watched it probably 15 times through the animals session and he was pronouncing the words clearer and was saying the sounds that they make and doing the actions (he has never done either of those before). Thanks for creating an amazing program, and I can't wait to see what the following weeks have in store for us.

The animals really got his attention and we could see he was trying to make the right sounds. Which was great to see and hear since all he voices is screams and humming most of time. It takes a lot to keep his attention at times when doing therapies. Yet these learning videos grabbed him right off the bat.

Kayt loves the movies!!! I am going to forward this to her developmental therapist. She is in the living room right now saying, “No screaming”. Laura this is awesome!

I cannot even express how grateful I am for your kindness. Gabe truly loves them. I am so, so very happy that I can give the site to his teacher and he can integrate them into his class. Today was such an emotional and hard day dropping him off, you have brought a ray of light to it, and indeed, to Gabe's life. Gabe watches the videos every day before school, sometimes at school with his speech therapist. I believe they've really helped to center him because he is doing well in school and it has taken much less time than I anticipated for him to make such a drastic change in his routine. Gabe is vocalizing more, though he is not saying full words yet. Thank you a million times over. To have it is a Godsend, and so are you. Thank you. Thank you.

Hello Everybody- I just wanted to post something very interesting with one of my patients who is using GemIIni. This a boy with autism, 11 years-old, who has had no functional language (mostly some babble, and some approximations for "Ma Ma" with the /m/ sound). I was doing an in home observation today. He was watching GemIIni and he saw the word "milk" on the screen. He turned to me while watching the video and smiled, saying "mmm..iii...llk!" and stood up, walked to the refrigerator, opened the door and took out the milk carton. He looked at me again and said "milk" and I got him a glass of milk, poured one for the both of us, and we sat there with huge smiles talking about the milk we were drinking. This was probably the quickest generalization of a GemIIni video I've ever seen. Awesome.

Dear Laura,

We have had some very exciting success with Gemiini in our classroom. While verbal language is not yet a consistent or reliable skill for our students, we see daily progress toward verbal expressive language! With this being our first full week of school, we are hopeful that consistency and repetition will yield exciting news in the near future. On a personal note, I have to tell you that Gemiini has provided professional excitement for me. Circle time used to be a portion of the day that was a struggle for everyone involved because of the intense effort needed on everyone's part. And the intense effort generally provided very little verbal gain. Now, with Gemiini as a focal point of the circle time experience, children are independently engaged and we are already seeing some forward progress!! Children and adults alike are not only working, but ENJOYING circle time now!

I have to credit Gemiini for the change. We have used video prompting before. And yes, the children were slightly more attentive; but no more interactive with the videos. However, with the Gemiini video modeling, we are seeing extended attending, and imitative intent with very little / zero stress! We are continuing Gemiini type prompting by carrying the video content through all aspects of our day. It is so nice to come to work anticipating the success that we know we will see with Gemiini. Thank you for all you have done to get us this far!

Thank you again! There are no words to adequately describe the joy of seeing a child's lips come together as he begins to initiate an imitation of an animal sound at the video's prompting. The hope and promise we are seeing is remarkable!

Best Regards, K.

We just got this started for my son and it is awesome...

We have been watching the Gemiini videos for about two months now. We watch at least three times per day. My son was completely nonverbal when we started. I have school and in home aba on board so he watches once at school once during in home aba and once with mommy. He is imitating the lizard, the bear, tiger and lion sounds. He can say fish, sheep, bear, arm, hi, bye and so many other words that are not even on the videos. It seems like there is a new word every day. Yesterday he said book and poptart, every teacher and therapist we see has commented on Leo's amazing progress. Thank you Gemiini.

Initially, our speech therapist was not on board with this program, until she heard Jacob say 'bear' a word he wouldn't say despite months of her trying. The speech therapist watched a few sessions to see what it was all about, she agreed it could work for us but had concerns on the pronouncing of the words as we are Australian. Imagine her surprise when Jacob doesn't pronounce the words as they on the program.......yesterday she encouraged me to buy a cable to use the program on the TV from our iPad! Not only has she admitted Gemiini is a program for us, but suggests using it on the TV for better display.

I seem to be holding my breath- because I am seeing so much more interaction, explaining of emotions, confidence in talking and answering questions and in general just more communication and language. From that one little video "explain" (why her tongue is blue)- my daughter is explaining things more to me and not hesitant. Before, it was always "I don't know" if I asked her.

From the video "Lucy, why are you mad? Why are you mad? Because they have bubbles and I don't!" - is coming explanations of why she is worried and mad about things. Today, she told me that she was worried about missing out of a class with her friends because of having to work in the cafeteria for the 5th graders!!! Oh my- I have a continual smile on my face because of all that is blooming. She is also- very intent on pronouncing new vocabulary correcting. She looks at my mouth and repeats the vocab word over and over with very good artic. Loving it !!!:-)

From Sydney, Australia: 

We've been using Gemiini for 6 weeks. My son is 8 with autism- completely nonverbal- but slowly making some gains like more eye contact, watching our mouths when talking, & trying some new sounds. I know it's a longer haul for us but he has made more gains with this program in a such a short period than years of other therapies. Highly recommended this program.

I have been using it for my 3 year old son for the past 5 weeks. He was pretty much non-verbal and has responded extremely well to the program. He is speaking full sentences, pointing to animals and different objects we see out and about and is trying super hard to communicate with us verbally all the time.

Ok so we started 3.2 today and E.. fussed and put her arm up and carried on - I had to go feed the puppy and as soon as I walked away she stopped fussing - I was in the other room listening next thing she is saying COW clear as a bell, woof woof woof, dog, rrrr (cheetah) prior to GEMIINI if u showed E.. a cow she would sign and "mmmm" for moo she has NEVER attempted to say "cow" and it was so clear. When I came back into the room she pointed to the cow and said "cow" and as I'm typing this she said "bird" clearly. Oh My Gosh..Loving GEMIINI.

HE SAID BIRD!!! And what sorta sounded like cat, but definitely BIRD! Second time watching the video for my non verbal, almost 3 year old and when it was covering bird he turned and looked at me and said bird a couple times. I almost died!!! He's been trying sounds for a long time but nothing that ever makes any real sense. I'm so excited!

Just another rave about this program as well as some details on how we are using it in case that is helpful to new parents. So before Gemiini, my son (who just turned 4) could not say the word "4" and could not count in order. After a week of watching Gemiini he started counting to 12 perfectly with a lot of "teen" approximations for the teens! Something has just lit up inside him. He was always a quiet child, timid with trying words as he knew they did not come out right. Now he is shining, naming everything he can, cheerfully trying new words, repeating everything he can, asking questions, pointing and naming, telling me things! The joy he has in this new-found skill that he now feels he can master is so beautiful to watch. Now my heart has lit up too! I feel I am getting to know him better as finally we can have basic conversations, he will try to tell me things, ask questions, make that connection with me. I am so happy, thank you Laura Kasbar and Gemiini team, giving my son the gift of speech is making him shine! Everyone is noticing, a ST who tested him just two months before was amazed (and that was after one month of watching), his grandmothers were stunned and friends notice.

At first I just watched whatever jumped out at me. Now I am going through the QuickStart Curriculum. I took the first animal video and then added in some custom session things and some higher interest things for my son. Total video will be about 10-15 mins. Then mid week I will jumble the order around a bit. My kids don't love Gemiini, but will watch if it changes weekly and changes a little bit during the week. My kids refuse to watch it more than once in a sitting so we are only watching a video once through, and are only watching once or twice a day. We have never formally tested, but both kids will start repeating what they are seeing so I am calling it good. So we are not doing it to the recommended formula but I am saying this here to show that Gemiini still works even if you are worried that you are not using it right. Watch your children and figure out what works for them and trust your instincts. It is a fantastic tool. Thank you so much Gemiini team!

My son loves Gemiini. Yesterday we did lots of stuff on the website. Videos, sequential processing, associative memory game and at the end I set up few tests. We have been doing Gemiini for 3+ months and my son is 5 almost 6 with ASD dx. Had lots of words in his head but couldn't quite get them out. His expressive language was pretty poor. Gemiini seems to be unlocking things in his head I had no idea existed. He is now reacting so much faster when asked a question, echolalia has improved dramatically, in the beginning he really couldn't do an expressive test and yesterday he aced it. He is asking questions about things and never thought he cared about. Like "what are you eating mom?" Or when I asked him what he did at school he said "I did independent reading!" I feel very encouraged!!!

Severe apraxia? No problem! We've got "Daddy"! My son is 3 years old with ASD and severe apraxia. We are only 1 month into using GemIIni and we can see improvements each day with him. He clearly said Daddy for the first time last week....it made me cry! Although he has not said it again I can see there is hope He is making new sounds each day and is more engaged when we talk to him now. You can actually see him watching our mouths when we talk to him! My son has been in speech therapy since he was 18 months old with no real success. He really enjoys watching the Gemiini videos and is now making hand gestures for the different animals when the person asks "what sound does an animal make. It is only small steps but it is only early days for us.

After 6 months. Success for a non-verbal 13-year-old!

Laura Kasbar ⎯ I just wanted to let you know my son for the first time pointed to his body parts! I am thrilled he is 13 and this is the first time he's ever done this. He seems to be processing things faster thank you for your encouragement for me to stick with the program just when I want to give up he shows me that he is learning things. He has been watching on and off (due to health issues) for around 6 months. He never seemed like he was getting much out of the videos and then all of a sudden he began to show me that he knew his body parts when I asked him to point to them he is also been moving his mouth some while watching other videos on TV. . Like you explained "All of a Sudden" it just clicked!

This totally works! My kids are doing GemIIni with rockstar results. Our intermittent speech therapist was stunned after 1 month! The grandmothers nearly fell over when they saw him again on Skype. I am delighted. My little boy has now started to actually converse with me!

Six months progress report for Gemiini with DS

My son just turned 7. We've been on the videos for 6 months. I use a lot of the Encouraging Conversation videos and I noticed he drops less words now. Also there is an articulation section and the closeups of the mouth saying the words and dragging out the sounds have helped with some words he could never say clearly previously, esp some sounds and 3 syllable words. He is also asking more questions and more variety in his sentences.

We didn't see much results with some Quick Starts like animal sounds, transport or lists of items like food, etc., but he did love watching them, so we allowed it to keep his interest. We saw more impact on his spontaneous spoken language when we moved on to social skills, encouraging conversation, wh questions, school routine, fading the prompt, action words, prepositions, and pronouns videos. Editing was quite easy but it took us a while to start doing it as our schedule was so crazy.

Can I just report what we have experienced so far with this program. My daughter has Down syndrome, autism, and is non-verbal. Her receptive language is fine but her expressive language is non-existent. She used to sign and speak several words when she was little but lost all expressive language at the age of 3- 4. She is 9 now.

I had little faith in the Gemiini program as we have tried everything to help her to speak or even sign. We decided to give the program 6 months. We started Jan 14, 2015 with quick start 3 times/day with meals. Some days we only got to two sessions, and the weekends were hit-and-miss. Then February sickness hit and we were unable to do any kind of therapy or schooling for the entire month.

We started up the Gemiini program again in March 2015 (three days ago) so that makes a total of two and a half weeks we have been applying the program. Today my darling daughter STARTED EXPRESSING WORDS AND SOUNDS. This is what she said: apple, ball, fish, go, green means go, guh (sound of letter g), D (name of letter), duh (sound of letter), and she is expressing sound effects along with the apps she plays with on the iPad. Granted, the words are garbled and hard to understand, but the important thing is she is expressing language. It's a giant start for all of us. I want to cry happy tears. We now see a brighter future for all of us! Thank you!

A total bragging moment. Ryan today is blowing his speech therapist out of the water and she has not seen him in 2 weeks. She asked him how he was he said "fine, how are you?" We have been wanting this back and forth conversation forever!!! He did it!!!!

I just bought Gemiini for a client. I am an SLP and I must say, I've only used it for 2 sessions, and I am quite intrigued by the responses I got from my client!! I'm very excited about this!!! Thank you Jaymie Cutting for forwarding this product to me and for writing a testimonial that seems to capture exactly what this powerful tool can do for some of our clients!

We started in September when my son mainly spoke in 2 word sentences ("want drink"). Anything longer than that, the structure of his sentences made no sense at all (autism and pragmatic language disorder). His receptive language was also really poor and most of the time he'd just say yes to everything I said because he didn't know any other way to respond.

All this has changed with Gemiini, and last week my son who used to act like other kids didn't exist stood up in front of his class for show and tell and asked and answered everybody's questions for ten minutes with no support. I'm sharing this all over the place because I think everyone who has a disability or condition which effects speech development should try this.