eprintid: 10142712 rev_number: 14 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/14/27/12 datestamp: 2022-03-10 16:35:08 lastmod: 2024-03-17 07:10:04 status_changed: 2022-03-10 16:35:08 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Welch, Graham F. title: The Musical Key to Babies' Cognitive and Social Development ispublished: pub divisions: B14 divisions: J77 divisions: B16 divisions: UCL note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: In today’s world, filled with myriad parenting methods and high-tech toys that promise to enhance infant development, it is easy to overlook how fundamental is the time-honoured practice of music for all children – starting pre-birth. This chapter explores the idea that music is crucial for babies in every developmental sense: with regards to communication and language, emotional and social well-being, and even motor skills. But it is only relatively recently that science has begun to elaborate in more detail the true extent of its significance. date: 2022-09-16 date_type: published publisher: Routledge official_url: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003223771 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1937135 doi: 10.4324/9781003223771 isbn_13: 9781032122519 lyricists_name: Welch, Graham lyricists_id: GFWEL02 actors_name: Welch, Graham actors_id: GFWEL02 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public place_of_pub: Abingdon, UK pagerange: 66-74 book_title: Contemporary Issues in Perinatal Education: Knowledge into Practice editors_name: Nolan, Mary editors_name: Gore, Shona citation: Welch, Graham F.; (2022) The Musical Key to Babies' Cognitive and Social Development. In: Nolan, Mary and Gore, Shona, (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Perinatal Education: Knowledge into Practice. (pp. 66-74). Routledge: Abingdon, UK. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142712/1/The%20musical%20key%20to%20babies%20development.pdf