singing power food for children's brains
Empirical evidence for a long-held suspicion
must Especially in the first years of life children get a lot more opportunity for playful singing, than this is the case today. This is the central result of an extensive study of 500 kindergarten children, conducted by Dr. Thomas Blank (Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld) and Dr. Charles Adams (University of Münster), together with the Health Department of the City of Münster was. Then a lot of singing children were under medical findings 88Prozent little singing children, however assessed only 44 percent as a rule ready for school.
The study provides the first convincing empirical evidence that singing promotes playful yet totally underrated, but irreplaceable measure the development of kindergarten children in all physical, mental and social areas. This is especially true for their language development, their social behavior and anger management. Every child can benefit from increased singing varied, especially children with a migrant background or from disadvantaged backgrounds. One explanation for this Findings provide neurobiological and physiological studies that include singing of happiness leads to increased production and to reduce aggression hormones. Therefore referred to the famous Göttingen neurobiologist and an expert on early childhood brain development Gerald Huether also singing as a "power food for children brain. Who sing the natural ability to develop, however, can not have, therefore, disadvantages in life.
All results of this study Thomas Blank and Karl Adamek have titled "Singing in childhood - an empirical study on the health and school readiness of kindergarten children and elementary Canto concept to practice transfer" in Waxmann Verlag (Münster) published.
source Uni Bielefeld
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