The Hill News

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was moved to the rehabilitation center on Wednesday and has already begun therapy, according to her doctors.

In a briefing Wednesday evening, doctors at the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston said that Giffords had been moved successfully.

They also said they planned on inserting a special valve into her breathing tube to help her speak.

"It's a busy afternoon already and I anticipate it will be more so in the coming days,"  Dr. Gerard Francisco, who heads Giffords' medical team, said at the briefing.

Another one of Giffords' doctors at the rehabilitation center, neurosurgeon Dr. Dong Kim, said that her ability to speak is improving.

Giffords was shot in the head during a Jan. 8 shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., that killed six and wounded 12 others.