About Us

Gemm Learning was founded in 2005 to provide powerful clinical learning and reading programs in a child and parent friendly format.

We offer two broad service choices: in center or home with remote Gemm oversight. Due to the convenience, most families choose our home service, called Gemm at Home. We have centers in Scarsdale, NY and Old Greenwich, CT, but most students work at home all around North America serviced remotely by our seasoned staff.
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How Gemm Got Started

Gemm Learning was founded by Geoff Nixon. Geoff had a successful twenty year career on Wall Street, running his own hedge fund for the last fourteen years. In early 2005 his seven year old son, Matthew, did the Fast ForWord program. About half-way through Matthew's vocabulary exploded. He was more able to follow directions, he became more talkative and finally started to make progress in his reading, a wonderful development for a child who had made minimal progress in the prior two years.

Geoff was inspired by this personal experience. He shut down his hedge fund at the end of 2005 and started Gemm Learning. Gemm is the initials of Geoff's family -- Geoff, then his children Emma and Matthew, and his wife, Anne McCool -- a personal name reflecting the family story behind Gemm.

To ensure a high level of support from the outset, Geoff developed a collaboration with Karen Slotnick. Karen is a speech pathologist, and Director, Speech-Language and Learning Center at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. She is a leading practitioner of the Fast ForWord program and often presents to professional groups on language processing and reading disorders and treatment.

Our Mission

Gemm was founded with this mission:

• Provide passionate service and cutting-edge science that consistently delivers great outcomes for kids.
• Build brain plasticity awareness.  Help parents understand that it is possible to impact how children learn.
• Find ways to make our service available in all demographics.
• Core values:  exceed service expectations, be trustworthy to customers and vendors, and embrace new advances.

More About Gemm

To read about Gemm in the news go to our press room here.

To read about our Advisory Board click here

Community Involvement

We take pride in our scholarship program that helps children from lower income families take advantage of our service. We are also proud to have made contributions to or be active members of the following organizations:

Boys and Girls Club

Boy Scouts of America

Pelham Arts Center

Pelham Little League

Pelham Children's Theater

Pelham Chamber of Commerce

Nurse's Network