Apart from their difficulty in producing grammatical sentences (i.e., agrammatism), they might also experience word-retrieval difficulty (i.e., anomia), and a motor-speech disorder affecting the planning or programming of speech movements (i.e., apraxia of speech). ![]() Patients with Broca’s aphasia (non-fluent aphasia) are unable to speak fluently although their comprehension ability is well preserved. ![]() Around 12% of the patients with aphasia are diagnosed as having Broca’s aphasia ( Pedersen et al., 2004). Therefore, MIT is a promising intervention program and its positive effects last for at least 3 months after the completion of the intervention.Īphasia is an acquired impairment in communication following brain damage (usually after a stroke), in most cases in the left hemisphere. The improvement persisted and even expanded 3 months after MIT. The SPECT scan revealed reactivation of the perilesional areas of the left hemisphere, and considerably improved perfusion of the frontal lobe, the anterior temporal lobe, and the upper part of the parietal lobe of the right hemisphere. The results from the BDAE-SF revealed an impressive improvement on both trained and prepositional speech production, immediately after the completion of the MIT, and a stable improved performance 3 months after MIT. The patient underwent three assessments all using both the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination–Short Form (BDAE-SF) and brain perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) (1) before the MIT, (2) immediately after, and (3) 3 months after the completion of MIT. The MIT intervention was administered three times per week for a 12-week period, in which each session lasted from 30 to 40 min. To this aim, a 64-year-old, right-handed male who had a 6-year primary school education level, no musical abilities and poor performance on the recognition of prosody attended the MIT intervention program almost two and a half years after the event of suffering an ischemic stroke. The aim of the proposed study is twofold: (1) to translate and adapt the MIT to the Greek language, and (2) to conduct an experimental study in order to examine the effect of MIT on Greek patients with Broca’s aphasia. ![]() Although MIT has been adapted to several languages, in Greece it is almost unknown. 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-fluent aphasia.
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