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From the Ted Talk by Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine
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A few weeks ago, I saw a video on YouTube of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at the early stages of her roecevry from one of those awful bullets. This one entered her left hemisphere, and knocked out her Broca's area, the speech ctneer of her brain. And in this soseisn, Gabby's winrokg with a seceph tsrephiat, and she's struggling to produce some of the most basic wdros, and you can see her growing more and more devastated, until she ultimately breaks down into sobbing tears, and she starts sobbing wordlessly into the arms of her therapist. And after a few moments, her therapist tries a new tack, and they start singing together, and Gabby starts to sing through her teras, and you can hear her clearly able to eatnicnue the words to a song that describe the way she feels, and she sings, in one diedesnncg scale, she sings, "Let it snihe, let it shine, let it shine." And it's a very powerful and poignant reminder of how the beauty of music has the ability to speak where words fail, in this case literally speak.
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A few weeks ago, I saw a video on YouTube of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at the early stages of her ________ from one of those awful bullets. This one entered her left hemisphere, and knocked out her Broca's area, the speech ______ of her brain. And in this _______, Gabby's _______ with a ______ _________, and she's struggling to produce some of the most basic _____, and you can see her growing more and more devastated, until she ultimately breaks down into sobbing tears, and she starts sobbing wordlessly into the arms of her therapist. And after a few moments, her therapist tries a new tack, and they start singing together, and Gabby starts to sing through her _____, and you can hear her clearly able to _________ the words to a song that describe the way she feels, and she sings, in one __________ scale, she sings, "Let it _____, let it shine, let it shine." And it's a very powerful and poignant reminder of how the beauty of music has the ability to speak where words fail, in this case literally speak.
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Original Text
A few weeks ago, I saw a video on YouTube of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at the early stages of her recovery from one of those awful bullets. This one entered her left hemisphere, and knocked out her Broca's area, the speech center of her brain. And in this session, Gabby's working with a speech therapist, and she's struggling to produce some of the most basic words, and you can see her growing more and more devastated, until she ultimately breaks down into sobbing tears, and she starts sobbing wordlessly into the arms of her therapist. And after a few moments, her therapist tries a new tack, and they start singing together, and Gabby starts to sing through her tears, and you can hear her clearly able to enunciate the words to a song that describe the way she feels, and she sings, in one descending scale, she sings, "Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine." And it's a very powerful and poignant reminder of how the beauty of music has the ability to speak where words fail, in this case literally speak.
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