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We all love listening to our favourite tunes and getting lost in the music. Music relaxes us, inspires us, entertains us and makes us happy. It is a means for self-expression and for escape.
Not only is music good for our soul and for our well-being, it is good for our brain! It helps creates pathways that allow for better language and literacy development, better hearing in noise abilities and better accuracy in responding to sound in our environments. It has been shown to help with creative thought and problem solving. But mostly, it’s fun!
"[Music] is good for our brain! It helps creates pathways that allow for better language and reading development, better hearing in noise abilities and better accuracy in responding to sound in our environments."
"[Music] is good for our brain! It helps creates pathways that allow for better language and reading development, better hearing in noise abilities and better accuracy in responding to sound in our environments."
We have lots of ways to listen to music via Bluetooth, Roger, and other options in our hearing devices. Do ask your audiologist about the possibility of having a program in your hearing aids or processors for music. They can make changes to your hearing aid by adding bass and slower compression release times to allow you to better enjoy the music.
If you are wondering about options for after-school activities and even options in your school timetable, consider registering for music classes. Playing a musical instrument is as much fun or more fun than listening to music. We also have lots of options for instruments that can be played. Depending upon your hearing levels or whether you use hearing aids or processors, some instruments might be easier to learn than others. For example, wind instruments, percussion instruments and keyboard instruments might be easier to play than string or guitar instruments in terms of tuning or correct finger placement on the instrument. For our students with cochlear implants, discriminating notes or frequencies that are close together might be difficult but again, some instruments might be easier than others to hear and play. You never know until you try!
Hearing & Music Research
Hearing & Music Research
Dr. Nina Kraus is a biologist who has done many studies about hearing and music and you might enjoy watching some of her videos. Click here for some of her videos and a very long list of research papers that might be interesting to read. Cochlear Americas also has some Youtube videos you may enjoy. In addition, Dr. Charles Limb has some wonderful videos and TED talks you may wish to search for on Google or click here for a sample. The information is inspiring and interesting! To start, watch the video below by Dr. Anita Collins about how playing a musical instrument benefits your brain.
Even if you to decide to stop playing, the positive effects of music education last. How does this sound to you?
Be sure to click on the closed captioning button at the bottom right corner of the video to turn on the captions.
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