Matt has developed many activities now and we now have a list of about 20 activities he does daily.  With all that, we have to rotate that list daily so Matt doesn’t miss any skills he’s developed.  With a more structured list of activities we have started combining multiple tasks as a challenge and that is complicating Matt’s focus and he does well with that.  We are still waiting to hear back from Dr. Lobats as well as still working thru Matt’s coumadin management with Kaiser.  It’s all a process that has to be worked thru the system and that all takes time, we’ll get there.  Lisa and I are now setting up a series of speech therapies thru someone that Spencer has been in contact with.  She is someone that knows of Matt and is very interested in treating him.  It will start with an evaluation probably out in Sorento Valley.  Sounds like that’s where his sessions would be but Lisa, Spencer and I all feel she is the right person that can get us on a program that we can work at home to develop memory, attention processing, executive function and other cognitive and linguistic processes.  Along with this the speech department at SDSU has also contacted us to get Matt back into their speech program as well so we are pursuing that for the spring/summer sessions.  With all that Matt and Lisa are going to be very busy after the first of the year.  My leg is healing very well and hopefully my next visit to the sports doctor I will be released from his care and able to go back to work sometime in January as well.  When that happens, I won’t be as available to help with getting Matt to the places he needs to go so if anyone can help Lisa once in a while that would be great.  Please don’t hesitate to contact us if that is in anyway possible or even if someone could be around for an hour or two now and then just to give Lisa a break.  She does an amazing job with Matt and he wouldn’t be doing as well as he is without Lisa, Lindsey and Lisa’s mom Joan.  Lindsey’s not as available now that she finished school and is well into her career at the dental office.   Joan as most of you know, also spends much of her time down the hill working 5 to 7 days a week.  Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday,  God Bless.

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