article_snippet.sent: Finley Lamb, five, pictured with Finley Lamb
article_snippet.sent: Finley Lamb is also highly likely to suffer heart, lung and bowel problems.
article_snippet.sent: But the five-year-old amazed mother Sara when Finley Lamb took Finley Lamb first steps last year and has continued to defy the odds by starting primary school - and Finley Lamb even makes the journey on foot. '
article_snippet.sent: It was around May last year when Brave Finley Lamb just got up on Brave Finley Lamb own and walked across the room - we were amazed,' said the mother-of-two, 37. '
article_snippet.sent: It just seemed to click with Brave Finley Lamb and ever since then Brave Finley Lamb has been building up from 50 metres a day, now to two or three miles five days a week. '
article_snippet.sent: Brave Finley Lamb programme says Brave Finley Lamb has to do at least two miles a day and Brave Finley Lamb can even get up curbs now on Brave Finley Lamb own and walk up steps with a rail which is amazing. '
article_snippet.sent: When Brave Finley Lamb was diagnosed with PVNH we were told Brave Finley Lamb would probably never walk or talk - but now Brave Finley Lamb is in mainstream school and playing with the other kids and Brave Finley Lamb little brother. '
article_snippet.sent: we just can't believe Brave Finley Lamb progress.
article_snippet.sent: we never thought Brave Finley Lamb would be able to lead an independent life, but now there is no reason why Brave Finley Lamb shouldn't be able to.
article_snippet.sent: Brave Finley Lamb defied the odds to take Brave Finley Lamb first steps last year and now enjoys walking the two miles to school .
article_snippet.sent: Brave Finley Lamb made huge progress after Brave Finley Lamb started a programme designed specifically for Brave Finley Lamb by the Family Hope Center, based in Philadelphia, USA, just two years ago in April 2013.
article_snippet.sent: The centre treats children with special needs and developmental delays and suggested special exercises and lifestyle changes intended to stimulate Brave Finley Lamb's brain.
article_snippet.sent: Brave Finley Lamb was diagnosed with PVNH when Brave Finley Lamb was two years old, which affects around just 50 children in the UK.
article_snippet.sent: But the determined schoolboy has made huge developments - with Brave Finley Lamb brain function going from 54 per cent to 76 per cent and Brave Finley Lamb mobility increasing from that of a seven-week-old baby to a two-year-old toddler.
article_snippet.sent: And Brave Finley Lamb now attends St Peter and St Paul Primary on the Wirral, Merseyside.
article_snippet.sent: Dan - said: 'Brave Finley Lamb has made so much progress and that is why I am so passionate about getting this message out. '
article_snippet.sent: It is hard to think what Brave Finley Lamb would be like
article_snippet.sent: had we not found the Family Hope Center and Brave Finley Lamb still wasn't able to walk or talk.
article_snippet.sent: And Brave Finley Lamb was under a lot of emotional stress. '
article_snippet.sent: At three-and-a-half Brave Finley Lamb wasn't walking or crawling, Brave Finley Lamb slept in a cot like a baby and couldn't speak at all. '
article_snippet.sent: Now Brave Finley Lamb doesn't stop talking.
article_snippet.sent: I nearly crashed the car one day because Brave Finley Lamb said Brave Finley Lamb first sentence and said 'Mummy I don't want to go there'.
article_snippet.sent: Finley's mother Sarah, pictured with Brave Finley Lamb left, said: 'We never thought Brave Finley Lamb would be able to lead an independent life, but now there is no reason why Brave Finley Lamb shouldn't be able to' '
article_snippet.sent: I think sometimes there is a misconception that disabled children don't realise what disabled children are missing, but it was shocking for us to find out just how much Brave Finley Lamb actually does understand.
article_snippet.sent: Brave Finley Lamb is due to have Brave Finley Lamb fifth appointment with the Family Hope Center in Liverpool next week - and has visited the center in Philadelphia three times.