Their perseverance, hard work and love has paid off, with Grant showing dramatic signs of improvement since being brought back to Canowindra from Westmead Hospital last year.

Grant suffers from Acquired Brain Injury after a car accident two and a half years ago.

The community rallied together to raise more than $10,000 to purchase vital medical equipment necessary for Grant's rehabilitation and physiotherapy, which was unavailable at Canowindra.

A final grant of $5,116 from the Australian Lions Foundation provided the last of the bulk amount of funding needed at this stage.

Fundraising is still planned to continue though in the future, as Grant's mother Diana Martin faces another challenge - modifying her house to bring her son all the way home.

The family has sold a treasured Monaro - which was to be Grant's - to help fund the necessary

additions and modifications.

"We told Grant we would have to sell his Monaro to afford the work on the house, and he understood," Diana said.

"I had $10,000 saved for the extension before Grant's accident, which was eaten up travelling to and from Sydney. Even with selling the Monaro, we will still be short."

His family devote more than 40 hours a week to Grant's improvement, constantly working with him and his muscles.

"He couldn't talk at all when he first came home and now he's communicating. He needed to be home with his family. When he was in Sydney, I could only be down there one week on, one week off, which didn't help his recovery, and then an operation also set him back months.

"But since being home, the difference is incredible. We work on his muscles for hours and now he's able to pull himself up, along with a heap of other stuff. He's now able eat, just soft stuff, but they told me he would never eat, talk or walk.

"He understands everything, he knows everything that's going on, it's just his body struggles to connect and react again.