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Gemiini is celebrating Acceptance Month, a movement among advocacy organizations to increase understanding, acceptance, and support for people with autism.

Societies have a long history of intolerance toward the atypical. Great artists, musicians, and thinkers have always exhibited “non-normative” personality traits. Famous people ranging from Michelangelo to Emily Dickinson and Bill Gates are rumored to have Asperger’s.

One of the most heated topics in autism is whether some children outgrow their diagnosis. Deborah Fein, a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, calls this the ‘optimal outcome.’ This small group of children who achieved an optimal outcome has spawned several studies to determine what factors set these children apart.

When you put a video in most kids’ hands, they watch it for entertainment. Watching a cartoon settles them down or keeps them occupied – during a long drive or before dinner or bed. How is Gemiini different? Why do we call it dosing?

Exciting news for exceptional learners: We’ve updated our beginning reading programs to include full animated videos that teach decoding and phonetic instruction – 24 in total.

Video modeling is a teaching method that is a form of observational learning. Language and desired behaviors are learned by watching a video demonstration and then imitating the behavior. Conventional wisdom says that if a child hasn’t made progress in speech by six years old, he or she will probably never talk. Video Modeling can blast through language plateaus and advance gains at any age.