PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE EFFECTS OF MELODIC INTONATION THERAPY IN THE REHABILITATION OF PERSIAN APHASIC PATIENTS

Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) is a method used in the rehabilitation of certain groups of non-fluent aphasic patients using prosodic-based melodic phrases. In this study, MIT has been adapted for the Persian language and its effects have been examined in a series of three right-handed, Persian-speaking patients afflicted by chronic non-fluent aphasia. We utilized subtests from the Persian Aphasia Test (FAT) to show the efficacy of the MIT program after 15 sessions of treatment. Using single -group time-series design, improvements in the selected variables proved to be significant. No significant progress was observed during the treatment-free phases.