Melodic Intonation Therapy
Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) is a therapeutic process used by music therapists and speech-language pathologists to help patients with communication disorders caused by damage to the left hemisphere of the brain. This method of therapy uses musical elements, including melody and rhythm, to improve expressive language by capitalizing on preserved singing abilities and possibly engaging language-capable regions in the undamaged right hemisphere. According to recent research, it may not be melodic intonation that is the crucial element in MIT, but the combined use of rhythmic pacing and conversational speech formulas.