Early musical training helps in language development

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Learning music at a very early age not only helps children acquire musical skills, but also promotes their cognition and motor development.

While not all children may exhibit prodigious potential, the skills from musical training enable them to learn other subject matter seamlessly. Language development, for example, is an area that benefits. There have been recent studies that directly show how the left side of the brain, known for processing language, is set to work through musical training. The brain becomes “wired” to recognize and understand the patterns in music and speech.

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According to the Children’s Music Workshop, young minds retain and absorb new information by linking it to songs.

The emerging relationship between music and language development has been inspiring, at the very least, and extends to other areas of growth, such as the cultivation of social skills. Dr. Kyle Pruett, clinical professor of child psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and himself a musician, stated that language development over time tends “to enhance parts of the brain that help process music. Language competence is at the root of social competence. Musical experience strengthens the capacity to be verbally competent.”

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So, whether it’s in singing, playing the piano or banging the drum, children must be set off on that musical path.

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