Making changes through sound
Music has a positive relationship to brain development since musical experience are displayed in the brain as multi-modal, involving auditory, visual, cognitive, affective and motor systems.
Answers on questions like:
Why are the abstract patterns of sound appealing to mostly all children and a large number of young learners on the autism spectrum appear to be very musical?
Find out by following Dr. Lettie Horn’s blog.
Dr Lettie Horn, founder of Veritas Akademie and the drive for music as an intervention tool for young learners’ whole body to develop.
Her research studies focused on language development through the use of music and music as a tool to develop the reading abilities of learners with learning barriers. With her developing interest in learners with special abilities and needs, she put a lot of research into trying to understand the way the autistic mind works especially with music as a communication tool.
Dr. Lettie Horn (DEd./Med.Special Needs/Bed.Hon.Special Needs/BA.Music/HED) is a specialist in Early Childhood Development, Special Educational Needs/ Music Educator and co-writer for prescribed books at the tertiary level and development of learning material (Arts and Culture) for Education Students at tertiary level.
