Music can help your child learn to speak
 
Some parents feel that learning music can help with their children's speech development. Research suggests they may be right.
" Putting words to music breaks them down into syllables, emphasises key consonants and slows down the sounds of speech", says Sally Goddard Blythe, Director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology, Chester.

Repetition of simple songs and chants can help your child to learn the basic structure of spoken language. They also build up their vocabulary; by the age of three, the average child knows around 300 words. Music also offers children a way to explore a whole range of moods and emotions they can identify with, but can't yet put into words.