Matt’s still at Sharpe and doing well.  The past couple of weeks Matt has been picking up a spoon, scooping up water and putting it in his mouth to swallow.  He’s also been brushing his hair daily although we do spray it with water for him first.  We’re working with Matt to get him to hold his electric razor and move it all across his face as well as handling his toothbrush on his own.  He can hold both but it’s the coordinated movement that he needs to get figured out.  These are simple tasks to all of us but for him now, it is a challange.  He’ll get it, we just have to be patient and let him try everyday.  His ability to hold up his head standing and sitting has come a long ways this month.  Standing he hold his head up on his own with very little adjustment for 25 - 55 minutes.  Seated in his chair he’s doing the same for 10 - 20 minutes.  Also we are getting him to start sitting on his own hands off with his head up.  That still needs more work but he’s getting it.  Today at Sharpe he wrote M A T T for the first time.  Lee, the therapist will write his name first, then Matt will write it next to what she wrote out.  Lee also had Matt wipe the whiteboard off after they were done and of coarse, he did that.   Sharpe speech will start February 2nd and Matt just had SDSU’s appointment set up for later in February to do a speech evaluation for their graduate program.  The timing for that could work out nicely.  We’re hoping it will either coincide and continue after the Sharpe speech ends which could get Matt 2 or 3 months of speech therapy which would be awesome.  We also have a referral to get Matt’s nose looked at.  We, along with some of the therapist have been watching Matt swallow and think he is having problems breathing through his nose as he swallows due to the injury to his nose which looks like a deviated septum.  Having read what information online that I can gather, sounds like Matt has all the symtoms  that go along with that type of condition.  Lots to do and we’re continuing to “get ur done”.  Spencer should be back from China this week so it will be cool to for him to see how far Matt has progressed in just 4 weeks that he’s been gone and to see where Spencer takes it from here.  It’s all good.

Well, tonight Matt just blew us all away!  With a Sharpie and a note pad he wrote:  M A T T  ,  L I N D S E Y  ,  M O M  ,  D A D , then B R I T .  Matt did it pretty quickly to, one letter after the next.  It was almost 9:00 pm, I didn’t think he would have it in him that late, but he did!  He picked up the pen for each letter so it was real clear to see.  We saved it all to show the o/t therapist.

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