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Music aids the development of speech according to Jessica Pitt of the Pre-School Music Association.
Music helps children learn math. “When children learn rhythm, they are learning ratios, fractions and proportions,” says Professor Gordon Shaw, University of California, Irvine.
Music enhances social skills. “The emotional aspect of musical activities seems to be beneficial for developing social skills like empathy,” says Dr. Alexandra Lamont, Lecturer in the Psychology of music at the University of Keele.
Dr. Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin, says, “Music helps improve children’s ability to reason abstractly, by strengthening neural firing patterns of the brain”.
It’s Never too Early to Introduce Your Baby to Music!
Studies
by two of the leading early childhood researchers, Thomas R. Verny and Rene Van De Carr, have shown that babies who have been
stimulated while in the womb exhibit advanced visual, auditory, language and motor development skills. They state “these
babies sleep better, are more alert to their environment and surroundings and are far more content than infants who did not
receive any form of prenatal stimulation.
Research has shown that babies liked a wide range of music, everything
from jazz to folk to classical, and that as they got older they reacted to more and more complex arrangements.
“Hearing complex sound patterns helps develop
the brain”, says Alexander Barzvi, child and adolescent psychologist at the New York University Child Study Center.
“Diversity of different kinds of music are essential and can be useful for the baby’s future writing,
reading and language skills,” says Dr. Philip A. De Fina, associate professor at the New York University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, and chief neuropsychologist and director of neurotherapies at the NYU
Brain Research laboratories.
The best reason for learning music is
It's fun and it make everyone feel good!