"For my autistic twins
Gemm has been a life changer.
The early changes related
to language -- articulation,
leaps in vocabulary.
But now these gains
seem to be generalizing
impacting everything.
Bettter thinking, logic,
and ability to attend."
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Gemm's Autism Program
How Fast ForWord helps autism spectrum disorders
Gemm provides autism help using Fast ForWord software at home anywhere in the US and Canada, with remote tutor guided support. We also offer local service at our centers in Westchester, NY and Fairfield County, CT.
The scientists at Fast ForWord are learning that their program is able to provide PDD help, including Asperger's, because the errors these children make in their language and reading are similar to higher functioning children, except that children on the spectrum make more of them.
Fast ForWord is very often able to completely resolve these language and reading errors for higher functioning children. And so, if the errors are the same, there is growing hope and evidence that it should also help ASD children. New autism study results and a growing body of anecdotal evidence (including our own experience) are showing gains in language and some progress in reading.
Recent Trial Results
Autism Report
Because Gemm targets underlying learning issues and builds fundamental cognitive skills its progams are able to change lives. 
Done in multiple sit
es, children diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) made significant gains in their oral language skills after using the Fast ForWord Language product.
One-third of the children were diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder- autism, two-thirds were diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder- not otherwise specified.
The improvements seen for the two diagnoses were similar.
"Accessing" Fast ForWord
Fast ForWord software requires a certain level of processing speed and bandwidth to be able to start exercising. Clinicians and scientists are finding that more children than expected on the spectrum have been able to do the Fast ForWord program. This allows them to "access" the on-ramp of the program and to benefit from the "shaping" -- the tiny, incremental steps that the the brain requires to be able to change itself. If a child is able to get started, to access, Fast ForWord, the gains outlined in the chart above are indeed possible.
If you have tried Fast ForWord for autism before and your ASD child has not been able to get started, you may want to try again. First the break can help, as brain rewiring continues after work on the program stops, but secondly, the new version, Fast ForWord Language v2 has an easier starting point making it more accessible.
