What parents Say About Gemiini

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!

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.

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 am so excited!!!!!! We have been using Gemiini for under a week and I have seen amazing improvement in my 3 year old!!! I know that sounds crazy-but I'm watching this unfold before my eyes! Here's an example… He has struggled with the word "fix" for so long. He usually says "seek". He could make all the individual sounds, he just couldn't put them together. Out of the blue today-he clear as day said "fix." His articulation has significantly improved in just 6 days. I tell everyone who will listen about Gemiini!!!

I’m so excited! We have been using Gemiini for under a week and I have seen amazing improvement in my 3-year-old! I know that sounds crazy, but I’m watching this unfold before my eyes! Here’s an example: He has struggled with the word “fix” for so long. He usually says, “seek.” He could make all the individual sounds, he just couldn’t put them together. Out of the blue today, he clear as day said, “fix.”His articulation has significantly improved in just six days. I tell everyone who will listen about Gemiini!

We have been using Gemiini for over 7 months with my 6 yo son. He is now consistently asking me questions like: What did you do today Mom? Did you do some work? Can we go to the pool? How was your day? He was not conversational when we started and he never asked anything. He is consistently responding to his name when called. I call him when I can't see him and he now answers 100% of the time and tells me where he is. That is huge for us as he would never respond before we started. He also now calls for me. "Mom, Mom where are you?" That was our first ever on Sunday. He is able to tell me at least 3 or 4 things he did at school with no prompts. So if I ask him what he did at school he can come up with things to share. Which is awesome as he was not able to formulate a sentence when we started. He for the first time ever (last Sunday) asked his sister if she would play hide and see with him. So I played with them. When Sophia was looking for him she would say "oh I wonder where he is" and then we would hear his say "I'm under the table". So I actually had to tell him not to talk. That is again huge for us as he never wanted to play games like that before. And last but certainly not the least is : I was sitting in our kitchen the other day and he needed help with his sock so he came to me and asked for help. I was looking at my phone and I must have been frowning or something because when he approached me he said "Mom I need help with my sock." and then he looked at my face and he said "Are you ok Mom?" I was just shocked to hear that, because he never asked anything like that before. And he seemed to noticed my facial expressions. All I have to say is I am so amazed at how much progress he has made in the last few months. I am so thankful and grateful for Gemiini. We have a lot of things to still work on but this is the first time I see visible progress being made.