Welcome to our New York Service

Our Scarsdale, NY center provides summer camp service only, run out of our Greenwich, CT learning center which offers a comprehensive after school program serving Fairfield County, CT and Westchester, NY in addition to summer camp.

If you are interested in programs for reading, please take a look at our at home reading service.
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Local At Home Service
While we serve families in center over the summer from nearby Scarsdale, New Rochelle, Harrison, Rye, White Plains, Pelham and Yonkers, children and adults work at home during the school year.
Local at home service

For directions just click on the map.

If you would like to come in and find out if we can help your child, we provide free reading and learning assessments at our Greenwich center. To schedule a time to come in, go to the page below:
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Local News on Gemm

The Journal News writes about how Gemm got started. 

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Gemm wrote an article for Westchester Parent about the academic options that parents have.  It explains the difference between tutoring and interventions.  Sometimes hiring the same old tutor is just not the right move. 

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Gemm founder, Geoff Nixon, wrote an article for Parent Guide called "Looking for Clues:  Is your child on a solid reading track?" that help parents recognize issues early.  Parents learn that they need to stay vigilant -- a child is only out of the woods with reading once they are able to draw inferences from their reading, a skill typically mastered in 4th or 5th grade.  

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