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About Our Service
Gemm Learning provides online learning and reading software for children, teens, and adults with wraparound services.
No Parent Training or Tech Skills Required
This is sophisticated learning online software, but your role at home is straightforward. You manage the schedule. You only need the Internet, a computer or laptop, and ear-covering headphones.
We set the daily assignments remotely and monitor progress daily. Your child just logs in and starts.
Students Work At Their Own Pace
The adaptive software has a computer game feel – counters, reward sounds, etc.
Once your child starts, adaptivity takes over—pulling your child up step by step, dropping back if it’s too hard. Your child should not need help, and for most children, the software is engaging enough to hold attention.
The exercises start with slowed speech and sounds. If your child cannot start at the entry level, we recommend trying again a few months later.
Comprehensive Support
Our program management team:
- Monitors every student click daily, including analytics and error reports
- Checks in regularly
- Intervenes with live screen-sharing sessions as needed
- Creates and updates individualized protocols as you go
- Sends weekly reports
- Sends certificates for milestones
- Is available by phone, text, or email at any time
Clients can access a Facebook support group and a dedicated client website (My Gemm), which has score sheets, exercise demos, tips, and explanations.
Built Around Fast ForWord
Our service is built around the Fast ForWord software series.
All students start with Fast ForWord, targeting the causes of difficulties, reading automaticity, and reading comprehension.
Then, based on student needs, protocols could include Reflex Math (math facts), follow-up reading programs ClearFluency and Reading Plus, and/or the K-8 math intervention software, DreamBox Learning.
Protocol Length and Requirements
Most students are with us for 6 to 8 months, 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week.
Since sometimes our programs do not fit the home routine, we offer a risk-free start for the first 2 weeks – cancellation rates are <3%.
Read our case studies here and client stories here.
“Who knew getting the calls and messages from the staff at Gemm Learning would have such a therapeutic effect on us and our child? They recognize every little & big improvement our child is making and they shout it out in those calls.
Your worries about your child melt away as you hear them and begin to recognize the improvements.”
“Gemm Learning was amazing with their customer service. They called us every couple of days the first week we started the program. Then we got weekly reports and phone call reports about every two or three weeks… My daughter used the program for nine months… It helped her tremendously, and now she isn’t having any troubles.!”
Getting Started
Our start process is:
- A one-on-one consultation to make sure we can help
- Baseline assessment and behavioral survey on day one
- Daily assignments start – typically 2 or 3 rotating exercises each day
- Create an individualized plan after observing a few sessions
We learn a lot from student performance on the different cognitive exercises—what is difficult and what is not—which informs our individualized protocol plan.
If you have not had a consultation, request one here. If you have had a consultation and want to start, register to start here or pay online here.
Our Oversight Role
Although Fast ForWord is adaptive software, it needs expert oversight:
- There are 50+ exercises to choose from – we make choices based on your child’s needs and goals
- If a student fails to progress, we send intervention ideas and/or run a live joint session.
- Support materials – how-to emails and videos as you go, and a support website
Completion Rates
Fast ForWord was offered as stand-alone software at one time. Completion rates (and results) were dismal – and so the DIY option was discontinued.
Engaging students and achieving compliance is part of what we do. In addition to the service, our team provides accountability. If you start with us, you will most likely complete. >95% of clients complete at least 4 months. Once you start, you are part of our success stats, and so we are all over making sure you succeed.
Finally, helping a child with learning difficulties is sometimes not easy, and sometimes there is resistance.
We have been there, and will always be there – a shoulder to lean on, your partners with a joint mission to transform a life.