Melodic Intonation Therapy

Melodic Intonation Therapy - Aphasia: Melodic intonation therapy (MIT) is method used by music therapists and speech-language pathologists to help people with communication disorders caused by damage to the left hemisphere of the brain by engaging the singing abilities and possibly engaging language-capable regions in the undamaged right hemisphere.

In MIT common words and phrases are turned into melodic phrases, generally starting with two step sing-song patterns and eventually emulating typical speech intonation and rhythmic patterns.

Neurological researchers Sparks, Helm, and Albert developed MIT in 1973.