Music and Child Development

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Early childhood years are said to be of great importance as far as taking in new information and in the facilitation of the learning process. With that said, the writer maintains that music has been found to be a great tool in aiding the learning process, especially in fetal, infant and early childhood brains. There has been much research on the impact of music on child brain development in recent times, as well as in the past. The early childhood years, as well as prenatally, continue to be of importance in regards to children taking in information. In this paper, the writer studies four separate articles on this subject.

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"The author in this article discusses and explores the possibility of young children benefiting from early childhood musical instruction. The author also discusses the impact of sensory and fetal experiences on fetal brain development, the importance of parent and teacher participation on children's musical education, involvement of music educators on cognitive science and neuroscience and developmental psychology researches (Fox, 2000). The author discusses several research studies, such as: the Perry Preschool Project, which followed up with children in different types of preschool programs. The children in this study ranged from ages three to adulthood. The results of this study indicated that early educational experiences impact the long-term direction of children's development, significantly (Fox, 2000)."

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