AUTISM and APRAXIA
“Alex is 6 years old, he was diagnosed with ASD just after his 2nd birthday. He has some motor planning issues and apraxia of speech. When
Alex was 4 we started Gemiini. We were doing good, he was attempting sounds he had never made before, floroscopy got him interested in his
mouth and tongue and he would look in our mouths to see how we made words. We also saw eye contact increase, more awareness but speech is
huge challenge so I knew we were in for a lot more work. No clear words in the 18 months of Gemiini.
Due to a change in childcare, we took a 3 month break. At the end of this summer, he went into a full imitation phase, whatever his brother was
doing he would do. He took off on this bike like he always knew how to peddle, he started copying the way we sit, when we played "just dance"
he joined in, playing Twister he joined in! I knew I had to start Gemiini and take advantage. This time I just did the [language] pyramid, and
I am assigning canned videos and rotating them every week. We have animal sounds! The rooster, the tiger… the chick. He thinks is so funny when
we all make like a chick. I also got his teacher interested, we are going to try to watch on this IPAD in the classroom which will make it easier
to get the 3 times a day repetition, since we can only usually manage 2 (breakfast with Dad and evening with Mom) That in a nutshell his out
Gemiini story :)
Looking forward to next … however long it takes Since starting Gemiini again and he is trying so many words! His best blue and bread :D ”
Gina N. (parent)