This is an amazing story, and another example of people not giving up when experts told them there was no hope. Experts are good, but if one tells you something is impossible and you don't believe them, keep trying because experts can be wrong. Rather than just doing the exercises the doctors told her to do with Jacob, she made time to do things that she saw he liked. She saw a spark and she fanned it to make a flame, and I am in awe of her and her family.
Here' s the TEDx talk by Jacob.