How Music Enhances A Child’s Learning & Development

By Author: Judith Muir
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Do you know learning to make music helps your child develop skills that are quite difficult to acquire from any other activity?

For instance, if a child starts playing a musical instrument before the age of seven their neurons are likely to show a strong connection between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. In simple words, music supports the growth and development of every part of the human brain and also contributes to greatly improved academic skills.

The real advantage is that even if music lessons don’t extend to a higher professional level, your child will have developed a love of music as well as music skills that will enrich their entire adult lives.

- From learning foreign languages to bringing back memories in Alzheimer’s patients, music improves memory and brain function.
Before children can understand words and gestures, they learn to recognize musical notes. Subsequently, the music develops fine motor skills.
Whether grown-up or child, music improves spatial reasoning. How? It is because visuospatial ability and music stimulate the same neurons in the brain.
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... - When a child takes a music lesson, they learn to process different types of complex sounds which in turn improves their listening and speaking skills.

However, the most important thing of all is that it is never too late to learn how to make music as the Sing-Play approach makes it all so easy.

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Judith Muir M.M. M.AmSAT., is a professional musician, award-winning music educator, and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.