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We started using Gemiini about a month ago now, and I have to say that my whole family loves it. You might remember from my first Gemiini Blog that, when we initially signed up, I was pretty overwhelmed by the size of the program and was relieved to start with a few Quick Start Language and Quick Start Reading videos while I attempted to figure it out.

This is my monthly post on Jacob's speech progression using Gemiini. We started a few months back and he's progressed from using signs and a series of grunts to babbling with consonants, and even trying to use words.

We have two autistic sons 4 and 8. My 8 year old is doing well with verbal but our 4 year old is non-verbal. The system concentrates on pronouncing words and the program repeats the word over and over and allows the child with autism to focus on the mouth not the whole face while pronouncing the word.

Speech, language and communication are huge concerns for most autism parents. They have surely been enormous concerns of mine. I vividly remember the sense of sheer desperation when Danniah (pronounced Dah-nn-ya) was 18 months old ....Link to blog

For those of you who know me, or have spent any significant amount of time with Jacob, you know that at nearly 4 years old, he is still pretty much non-verbal. No seriously. Not a word. Barely a syllable. Or a SOUND.