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Melodic Intonation Therapy
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Aphasia
- Usually a result of a stroke
- Loss of linguistic ability
- Damage to left hemisphere
- Broca's aphasia -
- Damage to inferior frontal gyrus
- Loss of the ability to produce fluent language
- Wernicke's aphasia - loss of the ability to understand language
from Encyclopedia of
Neuroscience (2009)
Methods for MIT
First phase
1. Intoning
2. Unison intoning
3. Unison intoning with fading
4. Immediate repetition
5. Response to a probe question
Melodic Intonation Therapy
(MIT)
Melodic Intonation Therapy
Benefits
- Hand-tapping engages motor and sensory functions of the left side of the body
- Rhythm reduces speed of speech
- Greater articulation of each phoneme
- Melodic rehearsal through natural prosodic speech patterns
- Right hemisphere language regions
- For patients with severe nonfluent aphasia
- Developed in 1973 by Martin Albert, Robert Sparks, and Nancy Helm
- Musical elements of human speech:
- rhythm
- melodic contour
Melodic Intonation Therapy
for Aphasia
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