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Babies May Get a Learning Boost from Music

April 26, 2016 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

"baby music"

Perhaps a different style? Something more… upbeat?

We all know that children are extremely influential and that the youngest they are the more easily to influence they are. But we have no idea exactly how easy to influence these future adults actually are despite whatever we might think we know. It’s all a lot more complicated than previously believed.

Why is that, you ask? For the most part, it’s because babies are apparently influential enough to have their entire development affected by music by the time they are nine months old. At least that’s what a study from the University of Washington in Seattle says, as researchers discovered that babies may get a learning boost from music.

But what does that even mean – a learning boost? And what type of music did the researchers refer to? Let’s dig into the study and find out more about the relationship between infantile cognitive skills and listening to music.

For the experiment, the scientists picked a sample of 39 babies. All of them were nine months old, and the first stage of the study lasted for a month, while the second for a single session with each baby. For better accuracy, the babies were divided into two groups – the control group and the subjects.

While the members of the control group had daily 15-minute-long sessions over the course of a month during which they played with different toys, the actual study participants listened to recordings of children’s music while the experimenter led the parents and babies by tapping to the beats in time with the music.

Interestingly, the team decided that the music should be in triple meter, like in waltz. This was chosen because waltzes are generally more difficult for babies to learn, but still easier than other options that were suggested, like classical music, particularly Mozart.

A week after the play/music sessions were finished, the second part of the experiment began. The babies came in for a series of brain scans, but got a lot more to do than just that. While in the scanner, the infants listened to an array of music and speech sounds, all played out in an occasionally disrupted rhythm.

The idea was to see if the babies’ brains would show any sort of response when or if they identified the disruption in the sounds. As it turns out, the brains of the babies in the music group were far better able to identify the disruptions and to respond to them than the playing group.

While not all that much could be inferred from the study other than the fact that babies may get a learning boost from music, scientists are pretty confident to recommend that children should be taken to music classes as soon as possible. Further studies have to be performed if the team wants to find out anything more on the subject.

Image source: Pixabay

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: babies, health, parents, research, Science, study

Early Therapeutic Intervention may Reverse Autism in Babies

September 9, 2014 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

A small new study suggests that the infants as young as 6 months old who revealed signs of autism, apt treatment provided by parents seemed to prevent developmental delays by age 3 in most of the toddlers.

The Davis MIND Institute researchers of the University of California found that 6 of the 7 infants in the study had caught up in language and other learning skills between the ages of 2 and 3 years. Usually before this age, most of the tots with autism are already diagnosed.

In fact the authors cautioned that the therapy program used in the study directed by parents during daily feeding, diapering and play routines needs to be investigated in larger, randomized tryouts. One of the authors Sally Roger said; you cannot either predict that this intrusion is prevented autism or changed the course. Sally said that we are really working on; “Could the infants’ developmental patterns be changed?”

She also explained that parents are quite aware of autism and the early signs for it. But, unfortunately we don’t have investigative tools or validated treatments for this age group. So parents and pediatricians are sort of in limbo on this, which is why we’re working so hard on it.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 68 children in the United States have an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).The CDC states that ASDs are distinguished by deficits in typical behavior of the tot, communication and social skills, and are about five times more common among boys than girls.

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Sally Rogers along with her colleagues researched the effects of “Infant Start” therapy on 7 infants who were between the age of 6 and 15 months at the start of the study. 4 of them had siblings facing autism, but all 7 were highly symptomatic for an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), revealing issues such as reduced eye contact, social engagement and intentional communication. All infants were otherwise healthy, with normal vision and hearing.

One-hour training sessions was organized for the parents for the period of 12 weeks. The researchers coached them to support their infants’ concentration to faces and voices, and helped them understand and perk up their babies’ interest in social interactions.

Wang, another researcher said that “The goal of early autism screening is early treatment, but sorry to say, we are in a state where we actually pushing early screening and now really need to invest in treatment research to show what the most effective treatments at that early age are. We need to come up to speed.”

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: autism, babies, Davis MIND, reverse, Therapeutic Intervention, University of California

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