Start going to speech therapy. Speech therapy helped me cognitively a great deal.

Try to remember that recovery according to the neuropsychologist who wrote the tbiguide can occur for up to two years after an injury and you've been healing for nine months.

Do fill out your SSI - if you make a sudden or rapid improvement from this point you can cancel it at any time.

I could not do much of anything nine months after the injury I sustained and now I'm working 20 hours a week. Every brain injury is different, but I believe hope can go a long way towards making a recovery from each one.