Melodic Intonation Therapy
Melodic intonation therapy (MIT) is a therapeutic process used by music therapists and speech pathologists to help patients with communication disorders caused by brain damage. This method uses a style of singing called melodic intonation to stimulate activity in the right hemisphere of the brain in order to assist in speech production. However, recent evidence suggests that it may not be singing itself that aids speech production and speech recovery in non-fluent aphasic patients, but rhythm and formulaic language.
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