What parents Say About Gemiini

So, there's this new program I was told about (last year by Aunt) that I finally decided to give a try. We literally joined it on my daughter's birthday (9-8-17 at 2:30am). To be fair, I looked into it a couple times after my Aunt told me about it, but the pricing is pretty outrageous ($100/month), so I quit looking into it. Then, suddenly it popped up as a sponsored post on Facebook, talking about scholarships. I haven't thought much about it nor looked it up in probably a year now. I looked into it and investigated it (including YouTube videos of real users) and that seemed to draw my non-verbal son and my verbal daughter both in, so I signed up for the free trial figuring it would be really awesome or I'd cancel if it wasn't. Meanwhile, I applied for the scholarship, thinking it made it free, but it actually makes it $30/month, for all day, all the time access (except when it crashes, but I take that to mean we need a break when it happens). So really, really wordy to get to this point: apparently the GemIIni program is extremely, extremely effective for my son (and my daughter loves it too). We watched 4-4 1/2 hours tonight, with a short break when they both walked away from it for about 30 minutes. It has premade videos and allows you to create your own videos put together from theirs (and to upload short videos of your own, actually, but those require them agreeing before you can use them). So, while this may just be how it's going for us, it definitely seems worth it if you have a kid with speech issues. We've not used it two nights since joining because the kids passed out, but have otherwise used it every single day. And my son is starting to talk more. He said "mine" tonight at nuggets so my daughter wouldn't take his.

We have been using Gemiini for 3-4 months. We love Gemiini because we can easily work it in to our schedule even with 35 hours of ABA per week. The test function has allowed us to realize that Luke's receptive language is much larger than we thought. We just started back with ST this last month. The therapist was shocked that Luke will actually keep changing the way he says a word to try and match the correct pronunciation. She said that most autistic children do not self-monitor things like pronunciation. Luke has really tried to start saying words correctly since starting the Gemiini program. In the video you see him say his first naturally complete sentence. I was expecting for him to say "I want telephone, please" like he has learned in ABA. Instead he says "I want to see your telephone, please." I feel like Gemiini, in combination with his ABA therapy, is helping to expand Luke's verbal skills and definitely showing him how to pronounce words more clearly! We are looking ahead with much hope and great faith for what Luke can and will accomplish. Thank you so much for all you do to help families like ours!

I seem to be holding my breath- because I am seeing so much more interaction, explaining of emotions, confidence in talking and answering questions and in general just more communication and language. From that one little video "explain" (why her tongue is blue)- my daughter is explaining things more to me and not hesitant. Before, it was always "I don't know" if I asked her. From the video "Lucy, why are you mad? Why are you mad? Because they have bubbles and I don't!" - is coming explanations of why she is worried and mad about things. Today, she told me that she was worried about missing out of a class with her friends because of having to work in the cafeteria for the 5th graders!!! Oh my- I have a continual smile on my face because of all that is blooming. She is also- very intent on pronouncing new vocabulary correcting. She looks at my mouth and repeats the vocab word over and over with very good artic. Loving it !!!:-)

Gemini must trigger something in their brain that nothing else has thus far done. Less than one week and we are amazed!!! I was the biggest skeptic. My nearly 6 yr old child has Ds and Apraxia. She is speaking unprompted words and phrases. Prior to this it was a rare unprompted word and basically never an unprompted phrase. Almost seems to good to be true, but we are hooked. I do watch the videos with her most of the time and then also incorporate the lessons into our play and life.

What if we had tried this two years ago? Where would my son be now? Do any of you want to wait two years if there is something out there to help now?