Today Matt had a visit from a speech therapist. We were able to find out what we should do and how we should do it. It was good to hear from an actual specialist about Matt's progress. He continues to make such great progress everyday, but to hear it from someone that actually works in the field daily, is so encouraging. She had him sticking his tongue out and touching it with a spoon. Matt listened to the command and then did it for her. She was able to move the spoon back a little further from his mouth and he still was able to touch the soon. Another exercise we can start doing with him is using a large flash card. One side will say yes and one will say no. Then you ask him a question and tell him to look at the yes side or the no side. First you want to introduce the cards to him and get him to recognize which one is yes and which one is no. Matt was able to look at both cards as she point to each one. If we continue to do this exercise with him he should be able to soon just look right at the yes or no with our command. So now we have two different speech therapists and two different physical therapists.
Matt has responded so well to his physical therapy. I can't believe how well he continues to do. Yesterday the therapist had Matt lifting his arm all the way to the ceiling. He asked Matt to lift his arm up and Matt did it. It was very exciting. He gets Matt to do things all the time. It is so awesome. He gets Matt to sit up and stand up. (With his help of course. Its about 20% Matt and 80% therapist) He's been trying to get Matt to hold himself up. We are just waiting to hear Matt scream out a bad word because Matt works so hard and he moans and groans doing his exercising. He gets mad a lot but you can see its because those parts of his body haven't been worked in a long time. He's just sore and tired. But he does such a great job keeping up with what he wants him to do. We are so proud of Matt. He is such a strong person.
As we head into another week I am holding onto hope that with another three days of physical therapy Matt will continue to do new things and continue to amaze us all.
Everyday is a new day. And we will take one day at a time.
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