“If you get a kid who is maybe 3 or 4 years old and you’re teaching them to attend, they’re not only working on their auditory skills but also working on their attention skills and their memory skills which can translate into scholastic learning, she said.
One of the comments: My son was diagnosed in 2nd grade with Auditory Processing disorder. In a room with background noise he would process 99 out of 100 words wrong. In the 6th grade after years of tutors, he was almost 3 grade levels behind. He started musical training. By the 9th grade he was at grade level academically. He was able to stop individual tutoring. He wasn’t a honor student but he was at grade level. Able to read and math scores were above grade level. He now is at college studying audio engineering. Editing, Mixing, live sound. His music training and ability to determine pitch is helpful in this field but more importantly he has auditory processing developement for academics. In a classroom environment he doesn’t incorrectly process 99% of the lectures. If you have a child with a learning disability, music training either instrument or vocal will help. Year by year the resources for Music from the school district continue to lessen. School districts need to acknowledge the numerous studies that show many benefits from musical training. If a student is an achiever with a musical background studies prove their SAT scores are higher. If a student has learning dissabilities, musical training will provide comprehension and processing skills. Now a study that shows a direct conection between auditory processing and music needs to be taken to the next level. How does it help children with auditory or visual processing learning disorders.
Another: Damn, that Socrates really got it, didn’t he? Recall that The Republic describes the optimal education to produce philosopher-kings: the initial education should focus upon the physical (we now know that helps develop three-dimensional reasoning), ‘secondary’ education should focus upon music and finally, the focus should be upon philosophy. Makes sense to me: you ain’t gonna be much of a philosopher-king if you can’t listen well.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/early-music-lessons-have-longtime-benefits/?smid=fb-share
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