Singing as therapy for apraxia of speech and aphasia: Report of a case
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5-year course of therapy-induced recovery in chronic non-fluent aphasia - Three single cases
2020, CortexCitation Excerpt :As pointed out in detail in our previous studies (Jungblut, 2005; Jungblut, Suchanek, & Gerhard, 2009; Jungblut, Huber, Pustelniak, & Schnitker, 2012; Jungblut, Mais, Huber, & Schnitker, 2014), the greater bihemispheric organization for singing as opposed to speech is one of the main reasons for the beneficial effect of singing in patients suffering from aphasia and may offer manifold possibilities for targeted interventions. The observation that singing capabilities are often spared in these patients (Benton & Joynt, 1969; Ustvedt, 1937; Yamadori, Osumi, Masuhara, & Okubo, 1977) prompted many researchers and therapists to implement singing - although in very different ways - in the treatment of patients suffering from motor speech disorders as well as aphasia (Albert, Sparks, & Helm, 1973; Belin et al., 1996; Keith & Aronson, 1975; Leo et al., 2018; Racette, Bard, & Peretz, 2006; Schlaug, Norton, Marchina, Zipse, & Wan, 2010, 2008; Sparks, Helm, & Albert, 1974; Zumbansen et al., 2016). Melodic intonation therapy (MIT), a form of speech therapy that had been developed already in the 1970s, combines melodic intonation and rhythmic hand-tapping with the objective of activating homologous language-capable regions in the right hemisphere (Albert et al., 1973; Sparks et al., 1974).
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2020, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :Other applications of NMT in neurorehabilitation are in speech and cognitive recovery. Singing was first studied for speech apraxia in 1975.13 Singing relies mainly on the right-hemisphere and can bypass injured left-hemisphere speech centers.14
Melodic Intonation Therapy
2015, Neurobiology of LanguageMusicians and music making as a model for the study of brain plasticity
2015, Progress in Brain ResearchCitation Excerpt :Patients who are nonfluent tend to have relatively intact comprehension for conversational speech, but have marked impairments in articulation and speech production. It has been observed for more than 100 years that patients with severe nonfluent aphasia can often sing phrases that they cannot speak (Gerstman, 1964; Geschwind, 1971; Keith and Aronson, 1975). This clinical observation formed the basis for developing an intervention which has been referred to as MIT.
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2015, Progress in Brain ResearchCitation Excerpt :Nevertheless, activation of right-hemispheric regions during speech/language fMRI tasks has been reported in patients with aphasia, irrespective of their lesion size (Rosen et al., 2000). For patients with large lesions that cover the language-relevant regions on the left, therapies that specifically engage or stimulate the homologous right-hemispheric regions have the potential to facilitate the language recovery process beyond the limitations of natural recovery (Gerstman, 1964; Keith and Aronson, 1975). Based on clinical observations of patients with severe nonfluent aphasia and their ability to sing lyrics better than they can speak the same words (Albert et al., 1973; Schlaug et al., 2010; Sparks and Holland, 1976), an intonation-based therapy called Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) that would emphasize melody and contour and engage a sensorimotor network of articulation on the unaffected hemisphere through rhythmic tapping was developed (Albert et al., 1973; Schlaug et al., 2010).
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