Music experience enhances verbal and auditory skills

Here's an interesting article someone forwarded to me from the Science Daily. It discuss how music helps develop auditory skills that enhance skills used for reading. How? Increased auditory descrimination helps with deciphering the differences between sounds: "d" and "t"' "s" and "sh", "p" and "b".

We aren't talking advanced musical training. Simple songs and chants, playing and experimenting with simple percussion instruments,  will do the trick.

For the complete article, go to: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070926123908.htm