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.
A class of drugs known as benzodiazepines has largely replaced barbiturates for both medical and recreational use. Benzodiazepines have less severe side effects and are not as likely to result in accidental overdose as barbiturates. Examples of benzodiazepines include Valium and Ativan. Fast facts on barbiturates.