step by step

Last week Matt's therapist came out of the gym so excited - Matt moved his right foot all on his own! In order to flex his foot up, he has to engage his anterior tibialis - a muscle that runs along the shin - and when he had his evaluation two weeks ago, she couldn't feel any movement in that muscle. Now he's doing foot flexes whenever he's sitting down. He still has to wear his leg brace at home, but they are starting to practice walking without it in therapy. He says give him six more weeks to get rid of the cane & brace, but we'll see.

Today in speech he told his therapist a complete sentence about what he did this weekend and used the terms today, yesterday, and tomorrow. She said that the homework he's had so far was really concentrating on cognitive recall and that it seems he doesn't need that as much anymore. Now we need to work on sound sequencing and words and how to get his thoughts out. He likes to say thinking is good, speaking is bad. At one point today, he even said his thinking was brilliant. He-he.

[I just realized that it might be difficult to dig through all the posts to find our contact info, so I've updated my profile on the opening page. You'll find our address and my email there.]