It's been a hot minute since my college days, but I do remember hearing about singing as one possible avenue of speech therapy. Something about using different parts of the brain I guess.

Yup, it's a different part of the brain. My wife's speech and memory are still worse for wear after she suffered a series of strokes in her left hemisphere several years ago, but she can belt out any tune she's heard in the past fifty years like it was nothing.

It's a key part of the movie The Kings Speech too.

I wonder where the delineation between singing and rapping is in this case.

I think Ozzy is a good example of this, though maybe not as extreme as Silent.

Ed Sheeran, Elvis Presley, Miss Montreal, Noel Gallagher, they all stutter when speaking but not when singing.

There's a Dutch rapper called Typhoon who can rap but speaks with a stutter

Oh that's actually a known phenomenon music is a different part of the brain from speech for some reason. Lemme get on the computer with a keyboard I've got a few more fun comments...

Everybody's saying that the Scatman stutters but doesn't ever stutter when he sings.

Let's not forget [the legend himself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8).

If the Scatman can do it so can you.

You are amazing. I just want you to know that. What you do makes a huge difference in someone's life and you should be paid way more than you probably are.

for older folks like those currently suffering from dementia - try christmas carols or religious music played/sung during the big religious ceremonies. i spent years thinking what sort of music i could play my great grandma, because what music was even there in the 1930s in rural poland? but the last christmas we had with her we put on some christmas carols, and she came back alive a little. it was magical

Oh for a lot of immigrants I do wind up resorting to folk music, and there's a lot of overlap with hymns and other spiritual music.

As I was reading this, I thought the girlfriend was going to end up playing a Kenku, being able to role play and handle her issue that way

Ozzy Osbourne is nigh intelligible when he speaks, but then sings incredibly well.

Neat! Others have mentioned similar events in this thread, but no one has yet mentioned ‘wielding a red sword’ which is a book in the incarnations of immortality series by piers Anthony. War himself is afflicted in the same fashion and sings to communicate. Oh and get your mind out of the gutter. Really good series.

It's just that normally it's difficult to only sing all the time.

Stories like these are why I love the ttrpg community. No question of does she belong in the hobby, just "how can we make her feel comfortable joining the party?". Being cursed to only sing is also a perfect backstory for a bard.

That's awesome. A certain bat eating musician has a similar condition. Speaks with an impediment but can sing perfectly well, because it uses another part of the brain! Or something. This is a Lemmy comment, not an academic paper.