Music Empowers Foundation

The Music Empowers Foundation provides funding to nonprofit organisations which offer engaging and innovative music instruction to children in communities where music education either does not exist

Group music sessions may boost empathy in children

Researchers from Cambridge University have found that regularly playing music in groups may improve children’s ability to empathise with others. They compared empathy skills in children who played weekly music-based games for a year with those who did not. The musical group scored higher in end-of-year tests of how well they recognised other people’s emotions. Click anywhere to read more …

Listening to music may improve a baby’s language skills

Adding music to a baby’s playtime may sharpen its language skills and ability to process musical rhythms, according to researchers from the University of Washington, USA.

Musical training enhances children’s verbal intelligence

Canadian researchers from York University reported that the verbal intelligence of 4- to 6-year-olds rises after only one month of musical training. The study suggests

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