Melodic Intonation Therapy: “The technique was developed because a lot of patients who can’t talk can still sing. Gottfried Schlaug, a neurologist at Harvard University, is studying how and why this treatment seems to work for many patients who have failed at other forms of speech therapy. He’s running a randomized clinical trial of the therapy and, so far, finding that it looks pretty good. He spoke at a session here yesterday on music-language interactions in the brain at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW).”