In the process of melodic intonation therapy, patients are taught to self-evaluate their level of success in reproducing the sounds made by the speech pathologist. The singing of words slows down the process of producing phonemes or individual speech sounds, allowing the patient to hear differences more distinctly.
Benzodiazepines (BZD, BZs), sometimes called benzos, are a class of psychoactive drugs whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring.
What Type of Drug are Benzodiazepines? Benzodiazepines are a type of medication known as tranquilizers or minor tranquilizers, as opposed to the major tranquilizers used to treat psychosis. Familiar names of these drugs include diazepam (Valium), lorazepam (Ativan),clonazepam (Klonopin), and alprazolam (Xanax). These are some of the most commonly prescribed medications in psychiatry because they have a number of properties which make them useful in a lot of clinical situations.