JUST IN CASE YOU HAVE WONDERED WHY YOU ARE SUFFERING INSISTING THAT YOUR CHILD PRACTICE HIS/HER INSTRUMENT - YOU CAN FEEL GOOD KNOWING THAT IT WILL NOT ONLY HELP THEIR READING WHEN THEY ARE YOUNG, BUT IT MAY STILL BE HELPING THEM AS THEY REACH OLD AGE.
From this amazing article from the New York Times:
"“To learn to read, you need to have good working memory, the ability to disambiguate speech sounds, make sound-to-meaning connections,” said Professor Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University. “Each one of these things really seems to be strengthened with active engagement in playing a musical instrument.”
Skill in appreciating the subtle qualities of sound, even against a complicated and noisy background, turns out to be important not just for a child learning to understand speech and written language, but also for an elderly person struggling with hearing loss."
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