Flynn’s Harp: Autistic kids are "classroom" for mom’s start-up biz – GemIIni, Inc.

With her three autistic children as her "classroom" for the past decade, Laura Kasbar learned the unique ways autistic kids learn. Now she is ready to launch a business whose video-based web platform will offer parents, schools and health therapists a new tool to harness that process of learning for a dramatically growing number of kids with autism.

Kasbar, a Spokane mother of six, including twins Max, who was severely autistic, and Anastasia, who was moderately so, says the new company, called GemIIni (named for the twins), will launch in the first quarter of 2012.

So over the next decade, with the help of her oldest son, Nicolas, who was on the autism spectrum as Asburgers, she developed the method embodied in the video. Her special focus was to help Max, who doctors told her, when he was four, would never talk. She says he is now mainstreamed in school and excels in class without an aide.

By Mike Flynn

Full Story: http://www.emikeflynn.com/blog/138/flynn39s-harp-autistic-kids-are-quotclassroomquot-/

The GemIIni site is under development but if you have questions or an interest, please contact Laura Kasbar at 509.218.2509 or laurakasbar (at) yahoo.com