Thank you that is lovely to hear and very encouraging....it is very hard and it is a slow process...and did relate to an earlier post of yours about the silence....we have dogs and now it's me and them making all the noise...very odd we have also started to learn Makaton.... he did manage to bank his voice although towards the end it was difficult for him to speak however at least we have that option but we need to the correct Ipad and App to make this all work porperly....Tony only had his op on the 3 Feb so we are in very early stages of getting sorted with all this....thank you i value your comments and support.... Kathy