Music and Rhythm Helps Kids with Grammar
This blog tells a story about Reyna Gordon who decided to study music and the brain. In this she discovered a link between language and music. Anticipating what music you will hear next is like anticipating a sentence. "In one rhythm test, kids listen to several musical rhythms and say whether they are the same or different. In another, they mimic a string of spoken syllables, with variations in timing and intonation." "There may be something that music training can do to help boost things. Maybe we’re able to boost their auditory processing skills in the brain, or something about their rhythm sensitivity in their everyday listening to language, ” Gordon says." They also showed an example of how a girl who previously struggled was capable of speaking. "It’s a 5-month program the lab created that involves weekly Suzuki violin lessons and a weekly movement class." Gordon invites everyone to do this camp. Read More => https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/06/01/using-music-and-rhythm-to-help-kids-with-grammar-and-language/