Our program is built on decades of scientifically-based research about how children learn most effectively!

The research is clear: music enhances early literacy and cognitive development, strengthening crucial brain pathways young children need to succeed in school. With songs, rhymes, stories and movement activities, the curriculum develops phonological awareness, auditory processing, and verbal memory skills. It also improves vocabulary acquisition and crucial listening skills. Mathematics skills are developed with steady beat, sound pattern recognition, and explorations of rhythm and tempo. Kindermusik students showed significant gains in their abstract reasoning and spatial/temporal reasoning skills. Students also show significant growth in self-control skills! (Research papers available upon request.)

我們的課程設計基於數十年的科學研究經驗，最能有效引導孩子學習。 研究結果顯示： 音樂能夠強化幼兒腦部主要幹線的連結能力，提升孩童的語言認知能力，幫助孩子建立學校課業成功所需的能力。透過歌曲、韻文、故事與律動，我們的課程內容能強化幼兒的聲韻辨識、改善有效聆聽與詞彙記憶等技巧，同時提升孩子的單字量與聽力。孩子在音樂中學會了節拍、音韻，節奏與律動等，有效地開發孩童數理能力的潛能。上過Kindermusik課程的孩子，同其他的孩子相較之下，展現出更佳的抽象理解、空間概念與邏輯推演能力。孩子也在學習中培養了自制力。

Kindermusik's Proven-Effective Approach

Proven Effective for Improving Spatial/Temporal Reasoning (Study #1): Classes with the Kindermusik/ABC Music & Me approach improved children's spatial-temporal reasoning scores by three times.¹ Spatial-Temporal skills (like sequencing and visualization) are crucial to a student's problem-solving ability. 課程設計一： 我們的課程經實驗證實，能有效增進孩子的時間與空間概念，幫助孩子建立解決問題的主要關鍵能力。只要上過三次的課程後，您將會感受到孩子在時間與空間概念方面的明顯進步。

Children Experience Gains in Social-Emotional and Physical Functioning (Study #2): Research on the Kindermusik/ABC Music & Me approach concluded that students who participated in the class experienced two fold increases in self-control.² This increased self-regulation is crucial to all other types of learning because children can wait their turn, listen to directions, and allow other students time to speak. 課程設計二： 拓展孩子人際溝通的互動經驗，協調孩子的感覺統合能力 我們的過去的教學經驗顯示，孩子能在我們課堂上學習與其他孩子互動與溝通的模式，能有效提升孩子的自制力，協調孩子的感覺統合。 孩子能學會排隊輪流玩、聽從指令、依序等待發言，進而培養未來課業成功的另一關鍵能力—自我控制力。

¹ "The Effects of Early Music Training on Child Cognitive Development," by Terry D. Bilhartz, Rick A. Bruhn, and Judith E. Olson in Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. December 1999.
² "The Effects of Kindermusik on Behaviorial Self-Regulation in Early Childhood," by Adam Winsler and Lesley Ducenne. George Mason University. 2005.

ABC Music & Me is research-based

The Link Between Literacy & Music:

Our Research Summary paper shows the strong and reliable associations between music instruction and reading scores. The curriculum's unique focus on listening skills and its thoroughly engaging activities help students develop the foundations of literacy: phonological awareness, verbal memory, auditory processing, prosody, listening skills, and vocabulary.

我們的研究團隊報告顯示：音樂教育與閱讀能力間的強烈關連性。我們課程內容所依附的聽力技巧與活動參與，能有效幫助孩子們增進語文能力: 聲韻覺識、語言記憶、音韻辨識、聆聽與字彙技巧