"Musical activities provide children with important
experiences that can help them develop physical coordination,
timing, memory, visual, aural and language skills."
Frank R. Wilson, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology
- University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco;
AMC 1998 Publication: Music and Your Child
“Music is effective because it is a nonverbal
form of communication, it is a natural reinforcer, it
is immediate in time and provides motivation for practicing
nonmusical skills.”
Myra J. Staum, Ph.D.
RMT-BC Director and Professor of Music Therapy
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
"Students with coursework/experience in music
performance and music appreciation scored higher on the
SAT: students in music performance scored 57 points higher
on the verbal and 41 points higher on the math, and students
in music appreciation scored 63 points higher on verbal
and 44 points higher on the math, than did students with
no arts participation."
College-Bound Seniors National Report:
Profile of SAT Program Test Takers.
Princeton, NJ: The College Entrance
Examination Board, 2001
“The musician is constantly adjusting decisions
on tempo, tone, style,
rhythm, phrasing, and feeling--training the brain to become
incredibly good at organizing and conducting numerous
activities at once. Dedicated practice of this orchestration
can have a great payoff for lifelong attentional skills,
intelligence, and an ability for self-knowledge and expression.”
Ratey John J., MD. A User’s
Guide to the Brain.
New York: Pantheon Books, 2001.
"Music’s uses in the autistic culture expand
to include speech development, learning routines, and
thought organization"
Sarah Schuchardt
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