The Importance of Music

Music enhances brain development and intelligence. Music helps a child’s maths, science - The direct correlation between music and math, science and spatial skills is well established as is the fact that an early exposure to music leads to cognitive growth in certain other, “non-musical” abilities, such as math, memory, and spatial-temporal reasoning. In fact, studies suggest that these cognitive gains increase according to the number of years that students engage in active music learning, and even that the younger children are when they begin, the greater the gains will be! Music improves a child’s speech patterns and sensory motor skills - Songs and movement are "brilliant neurological exercises" that introduce children to speech patterns, sensory motor skills, and vital movement strategies. Music also improves language and vocabulary skills, so are logic and rhythmic skills. Logic or reasoning also develops as a part of inner speech, as the child becomes able to organise ideas and solve problems.

Music helps a child build social skills. Children with more developed inner speech and impulse control also exhibit greater social skills. Research also links social and emotional development with school-readiness and even with higher academic testing scores. It's no surprise. After all, the same skills that foster emotional security and social success - skills like confidence, curiosity, cooperation, self-regulation, and good listening - predict cognitive achievement and academic success as well. Music also facilitates genuine bonding between adult and child, builds social/emotional skills, promotes attention to task and inner speech, develops impulse control and motor development. Music communicates creativity and joy. Research confirms that the highest level of music aptitude occurs immediately after birth. The best time for children to learn music is between the ages of 1 and 9. This is because infants possess an abundance of genes and synapses that immediately make them ready for learning music.

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