History
Neurological researchers Sparks, Helm, and Albert developed melodic intonation therapy in 1973 while working with adults in the Aphasia Research Unit at the Boston VA Hospital (Marshal and Holtzapple 1976). MIT is based on the hypothesis of these researchers that "increased use of the right hemisphere dominance for the melodic aspect of speech increases the role of that hemisphere in inter-hemispheric control of language, possibly diminishing the language dominance of the damaged left hemisphere" (Marshal and Holtzapple, 1976). In order to do this, common words and phrases are turned into melodic phrases emulating typical speech intonation and rhythmic patterns (Davis et al. 1999; Marshal and Holtzapple 1976).
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