Abstract Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) is a prominent rehabilitation program for
individuals with post‐stroke aphasia. Our meta‐analysis investigated the efficacy of MIT …

Background: Empirical study of the effects of treatment for acquired apraxia of speech (AOS)
has been ongoing for more than four decades. The evidence-base supporting behavioral …

Abstract The Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) provides a framework to
identify specific components of treatments developed within various rehabilitation disciplines …

Melodic intonation therapy (MIT) is one of the most well-known treatment methods which is
based on pitch and rhythm and was developed to increase verbal output in adults with non …

Abstract Purpose Task-independent (eg, Ballard et al., 2003) and task-dependent models
(eg, Ziegler, 2003) differ in their predictions regarding the learning transfer from non-speech …

Purpose: Amateur singing is a universal, accessible, and enjoyable musical activity that may
have positive impacts on human communication. However, evidence of an impact of singing …

Purpose Music-based interventions are used in the treatment of childhood speech sound
disorders (SSDs). Hypotheses on working mechanisms are being developed, focussing on …

In outlining the brain mechanisms underlying singing, this chapter first overviews
organization of the brain, situating the complex sensorimotor feedback system associated …

It is unclear whether individuals with agrammatic aphasia have particularly disrupted
prosody, or in fact have relatively preserved prosody they can use in a compensatory way. A …

Here, we review the literature on neurotypical individuals and individuals with post-stroke
aphasia showing that right-hemisphere regions homologous to language network and other …