Are We Right For Your Child?: Who We Help
Who We Help – In Detail
If you spend too much time dealing with a shut-down learner, cajoling your child to read, or navigating homework battles, we might be able to help. The brain is capable of massive change with the right prompts and oversight.
Reading Delays
For children and teens. For younger children, it’s difficulty sounding out words, a reluctance to read, or a lack of comprehension. For middle and high school age, it’s more about slow reading, lack of reading comprehension, or no interest in reading – reading help info here
Adult Reading. Slow reading, constantly re-reading pages, lacking comprehension, no test-taking stamina – adult reading programs
Learning Difficulties
Learning Frustration. If homework is a battle, grades are disappointing, and/or your child is fragile, lacks confidence in taking on new things, or is at risk of shutting down when corrected, your child likely has an undiagnosed learning delay. Programs for kids with learning frustration and anxiety.
Auditory Processing Difficulties. Symptoms include difficulty listening with background noise, lack of focus, frustration with homework, lower-than-expected grades, and reading difficulties. Auditory processing delay treatment
Dyslexia. Our software addresses the processing delays responsible for most cases of dyslexia. Dyslexia reading programs
Attention Deficits. Exhausting school days, lacking stamina in reading or homework? ADHD programs
Speech & Language Delays. Speech delays in early life, difficulty with rhyming, and inability to follow multi-step instructions? Speech and language programs.
Social and Emotional. Struggles socially, shuts down over homework, lacks self-confidence, and is emotionally immature? Cognitive training for social skills
Executive Function. Disorganized; cannot plan? Programs for executive function
Working Memory Delays. Takes too long with homework, inattentive, and reading comprehension is not developing? Working memory programs
Autism Spectrum Disorder. We help with the processing delays at the heart of the autism diagnosis. Learning programs for individuals with autism
Other Learning
Homeschooling. Slow reading growth, learning inefficiency? Reading programs for homeschoolers
Traumatic Brain Injury. Chemobrain, accident victims, strokes. Programs to help TBI recovery
Math Difficulty. For many children, math difficulty is the first real sign of a learning issue. Math is abstract, and it requires accurate listening comprehension. Our math programs combine exercises that build the cognitive skills needed for math, a comprehensive curriculum, and math fact exercises to help your child catch up and get ahead. Our math programs
Test-taking Skills. Gains in cognitive, language, and reading skills feed directly into better test scores. More on cognitive training for test-taking
Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities. More on non-verbal learning disabilities here
Gemm Learning has provided cognitive training and reading interventions at home since 2006, using the amazing Fast ForWord software series and a supporting cast of programs. Fast ForWord builds essential language processing and pre-reading skills, and then reading comprehension