Thank you gcoe. I feel I have a starting point now. I am 'devouring' the exercises site and the other two are very valuable at this stage. We are paying attention to resting splints. Yes, he can sit and we lift him into a chair daily, slowly stretching the periods. I'll make sure that we work in a graded fashion. You have also helped with terminology as I question the 'stroke' terminology. Traumatic Brain Injury just intuitively feels as if it fits, although the category is more diffuse I think. (smiles .. intuition is all I have at the moment as I sure do not have the knowledge). Cerebral malaria give funny results on EEG's and I feel that 'stroke' was used in the absence of correct terminology.

So, now to searching out appropriate exercises and doing them myself first so that I have an idea of what I am doing. And off to speech therapy to ask some questions there.