Melodic Intonation Therapy

Grettings. How was everyone's week? Mine has bee good. Have not been able to talk to my fans since I have been busy with science fair. Later on in the future, I will redo the Speech-Language Pantholgy since there was major stuff I left out.... Well anywho, today's post is over something that I'm currently doing. It's called Melodic Intonation Therapy.
Melodic Intonation Therapy is when you have a singy voice while talking. the goal of this is to eventually get rid of stuttering. Well this therapy goes by four steps-

 In the first stage the therapist hums “intoned phrases” and the stutter taps the “rhythm and stress of each pattern” with his/her hands or feet . In the beginning of the second stage the stutter joins the therapist in humming while continuing to beat the rhythms. As the stutter progresses, the therapist begins to sing “intoned phrases” and the stutter repeats them . The third stage is the same as the final level of stage two except that now the stutter is required to wait for a designated period of time before repeating the phrase or sentence. This helps to increase the stutter's ability to “retrieve” words. In the fourth and final stage the sentence length is increases and “sprechgesang” is used to facilitate the transition to normal speech. The ultimate goal is to remove the musical elements entirely so the stutter presents normal speech.