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!

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.

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.

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.