Empowering learners to live life understood.
Who We Are
At Gemiini, we are taking meaningful steps to impact lives with special needs; Engaging special needs members at every age and stage of life to increase speech, language, reading, life, and social skills so they can live a better life; Also working with our partners and communities in a shared mission to improve outcomes and reduce costs; Empowering learners to live life understood.
Our History
The Story of the Kasbar Twins
Laura and Max with Gemiini (2015)
On March 3, 2000, Laura and Brian Kasbar's twins were diagnosed with autism at age 3 and began receiving intensive early therapy. Both were minimally verbal. The girl, Ana, was diagnosed with moderate autism. The boy, Max, was diagnosed with severe autism.
The family was told he would not ever speak and probably live in an institution. Over the next 6 months, Ana gained several words of vocabulary through therapy, but Max was not responsive. After speaking with adults on the spectrum about how to best reach her children, Laura designed a way to present video therapy to Max and Ana in a very straightforward and sensory-managed way. A variety of therapy techniques were added to the video presentation—This became the foundation of the Gemiini Discrete Video Modeling or DVM approach.
- Within one day of seeing his first video, Max said his first word. Within 6 months, he and his sister were gaining language at almost neurotypical rates.
- Within three years, both twins were speaking and had a neurotypical vocabulary.
The Story of Gemiini
By 2008, people from all over the world started asking Laura through mutual friends to please travel to their countries to help teach their children using customized DVM videos just for them. Across the US and in France, England, Sweden, each child gained speech.
By 2009, Gemiini was founded when Laura realized that millions of children needed access to such video therapy. An online Gemiini prototype was developed with 50 words and three families.
By 2010, Gemiini had 1000 videos and was working in local classrooms.
By 2014, Gemiini had 10,000 videos and had its first commercial sale.
By 2016, Gemiini had 40,000 videos online, was treating 2,000 families and had completed two clinical studies.
By 2020, Gemiini had 150,000 videos online and had treated more than 50,000 families in 37 countries.
What We Do
We Empower Learners to Live
Life Understood
Gemiini is a clinically proven program with on-demand video therapy and teaching tools to teach new information and train (or retrain) the brain how to think. To do this, Gemiini breaks down information into understandable and digestible bites to teach speech, language, reading, social skills, and life skills. Gemiini does this by using a clinically proven approach called discrete video modeling, which focuses on one concept at a time and presents that information in a video session-based format that fits easily within our modern lifestyles. This makes Gemiini an ideal solution for people with special needs like Autism, Down syndrome, Speech Delay, Stroke, and others.
And unlike other solutions, our service is online and has a huge library of content easily tailored to suit everyone's unique needs. To make sure the learning never has to stop, our on-staff videographers and editors are always hard at work to make new videos available to you daily. And with the ability to create and upload your own video clips, the learning possibilities are endless!
Gemiini is completely non-threatening and learners can watch the video assignments while they are engaged in other activities like at mealtime, riding in the car, or grocery shopping.
How It Works
Our Therapeutic Approach
The Gemiini Program
Gemiini offers on-demand, evidence-based video therapy to teach speech, language, cognitive, motor, and life skills. It uses video modeling to simplify learning for children with special needs. Each plan is tailored through assessments and can be guided by professionals or parents.
Early Intervention for Language Growth
Starting Gemiini early—before school age—can lead to stronger language development. Its proven method helps children with special needs build essential communication skills years ahead, giving them a solid learning foundation.
Flexible & Adaptive Learning
Gemiini fits into everyday life—lessons can be done during play, meals, or travel. Parents and therapists can teach anytime, anywhere, making it ideal for children with autism, speech delays, or Down syndrome.
DISCRETE VIDEO MODELING (DVM) breaks words and ideas into short, understandable bites by eliminating distractions. Repetition, Audio-Visual pairing, and context increase retention. DVM supports the way our brains work. DVM presents each concept as a discrete learning bite - without unnecessary information or distractions. Using a multi-view approach, the learner is exposed repeatedly to a word or concept in three contexts:
Name Card
Mouth View
Action Scene (Generalization)
The Benefits of Gemiini:
Research-Based: An evidence-based practice since 1990, video modeling is a demonstration of the targeted behavior or skill shown to the learner to assist learning in or engaging in a desired behavior or skill. Research shows that Gemiini fosters significant language acquisition. Because Gemiini can start before a school-age diagnosis, children receive a multi-year head-start building their critical language skills.
Efficiency: Learning targets are quickly identified through assessment tools and professional support.
Real-Time Collaboration: Team members can review and adjust the learner's curriculum, targets, and progress—all in real-time.
Enduring: The Discrete video model reinforces skills to be applied in clinics, at school, and at home. It promotes generalization and maintenance of skills.
Flexible: Anywhere/anytime approach works at home, school, road trips, and more.
Access: Promotes early therapy unencumbered by wait times, waitlists, or age limits. Gemiini allows for immediate access to care.
Economical: Gemiini provides access to therapy services that traditional face-to-face therapies can't keep up with the demand, nor the costs.
- Keri Jones CCC-SLP, Pullman Regional Hospital (WA)
- Dr. Heather O'Shea BCBA-D, Chief Clinical Officer ACES (CA-OR-WA-HI-CO-TX-UT)
