What parents Say About Gemiini

We began Gemini about 21 months ago. Two children, both ASD. I found Gemiini but hadn't heard of previously. Mentioned it to our ABA analyst who had seen early research and was very optimistic. SL Therapist hadn't heard of and was skeptical! Signed up as thought it was worth a try. At the time our first child, Sadhbh, a girl, was four years, she had a two year delay in language. She was moderate on ASD scale. At time of signing up with Gemiini had gotten to 10th centile for overall language score. Receptive language was less than 5th centile. improvements were slow and hard earned. Second child, Seanan, was just two, he had 15 sounds (mmm for milk, a few animal signs ....) and almost no receptive language. Couldn't follow a single direction. Was very frustrated. No imitation skills at all. Very poor play skills too. Seanan, within a week, was pointing, imitating and saying all the animal sounds. By six months he was saying sentences. Now over a year later he is chatty, speaking in sentences. He's had first language test and he's ahead for age now! With the speech delay sorted he has become a social little boy and is just settling into his new mainstream preschool with ease. Sadhbh had small improvements...pronunciation, eye contact, attempts at conversation, watching people's mouth, speaking more to person than to space..... After another two months we noticed more improvements. She started to use some of the scripted conversations. After six months she had big gains. Last years language score she reached 21st centile after six months of Gemiini with receptive language score at 10th centile. She's just had assessment last month and she's 47th centile so very much improved again. Additional achievements are a big increase in social behaviour. She is playing with children. Yes she is still behind socially but she is definitely catching up. I feel GEMIINI has allowed our girl to flourish in mainstream school. At start of primary she barely had enough words to enter the class. A year and half later she is top in her class for reading. Her receptive language is hugely improved. She's following directions. Still expressive language is challenging but much improved. I cannot recommend Gemiini highly enough. It has made such a difference to our children and their lives. It is so easy to use and relative to other therapies it is inexpensive. Due to the gains we have seen with Gemiini I now believe both my children will be capable of a successful independent life and that they themselves will determine their own outcome. I think Laura Kasbar and her family have given the world an incredible gift. Such foresight to see what a difference she could make to so many people the world over!! I feel the management team at Gemiini make a huge contribution to the success of Gemiini. They are proactive in putting more and more video clips together that allow our children to develop language skills in areas that are relevant to them. Thank you very very much!!"

My 3-year-old baby girl has been doing Gemiini for 10 weeks now. She has severe global developmental delay and though she's always made many sounds she has never said actual words. We've been doing a lot of imitation videos and this Saturday she imitated "bear" and "up" :) when we were playing and talking about her favourite cartoons - Masha and the Bear. So happy I could dance on the table! Thank you Gemiini, I knew we were on the right path when signing up, and this just gives us more incentive to carry on.

My 3.3 year old was not talking and I was worried about autism. She has not had a diagnosis as I could not afford the cost. Instead of spending so much on a diagnosis, with no money for treatment, I just tried Gemiini. I applied for a scholarship and am grateful for the help. She has been using Gemiini each day for 6 months and she can say over 100 words now, all from Gemiini. All I can say is, “Try it! It works! There is help!”

We first started last January. I started off with putting it on quick start. And doing the sessions as told. My boy took to them, he also loved home videos and YouTube videos. So this was up his alley. We knew he knew the basics that Gemiini was teaching at the beginning, he didn't say much repetition, and he still had that babble talk unless specifically asked about something and the occasional throw out of a word if really motivated. Then I fell through with playing so much, even trying random videos so he wouldn't get too bored. See our child's main problem is speech and language as an ASD kid. So I start playing them less and less. Why. Well like most time and he could just turn them off himself. And he didn't seem to be moving forward much, and well appointments took over. I discovered a ps4 and tv connection this last month. And started where I left off. Randomly playing the animal ones and knowing where his language needed to go playing more advanced videos. Well you know the hi stop what's animal is this, stop, jump, stop, etc video. I played and he just started doing the motions and saying what was on the video. I taped it! I'm super happy with what i thought had no affect on my kid except reinforce his knowledge and help say a few words he was saying better. I went on to the animal videos, and he was saying every animal sound, slow pronounciation with the faster pronounciation. So I end with this Saturday night with Gemiini, this time I went to Conversation 1 beginning section. Saying I love you, can you help me carry the box, are you hungry? Well it's was time to go up for a snack and he went upstairs to my husband saying "are you hungry? " and today at supper I said its almost time to eat and sat at the table saying "are you hungry?" Which we are interpreting as I am hungry. Huge leap and bounds! Not only does he repeat these words, his pronounciation is much better and the babbling (which we think is mimicking are faster paced speech) has slowed down to more of a understanding and more clear speech of what he is doing or pretend playing. And boy his requests are becoming more like more than 3 word requests/statements and unfortunately for us but great for him, he's now telling us with more assertiveness what he wants, especially if he's being a stick in the mud! I will continue to use Gemiini as it has proven to be useful even when I thought my child wasn't listening. It is a tool for me a mom who's learning to teach speech/language. Just another success story to add to all those other Gemiini stories. I hoping this help give hope to the people reading this. Never give up! And remember even if your child isn't talking or isn't at what the age they are suppose to be at, what's most important are the tools you have given your child with and the abundance of knowledge that comes from tools such as Gemiini along with that love you have for them! So grateful!"

My 2 year old has some language delay issues. He understands quite a lot but his articulation is kind of backwards sometimes. He is watching the GemIIni videos and his speech is so much clearer. He just turned 2 last month and he already knows his colors now from GemIIni.

We're in Australia and our son is almost 5. He's been almost completely non-verbal. We have tried to encourage speech the entire time but only started using Gemini last month. We did have a little trouble getting him started because he wanted the interactive touch experience but since making it full screen he's glued to it. He just said two words in the first session. We are still in disbelief. It was hard to hold back tears. If you have autistic children and struggling with speech, you need to give this a real try.