Music for babies

Music encourages and improves a baby's listening ability.  By engaging the child in an interactive and playful song, the baby learns through sound, sight, and action.  Songs with words and rhymes helps develop and improve the childs vocabulary. 

Music in the news

• Rhymes "boost child development"
• Why Mummy beats Mozart in the hit parade for babies
• Babies tune into foreign beats
• Babies unwind wearing headphones
• Rock your baby if you want children with rhythm

TTYB resources

• Communicate through music
• When does the music begin?

Using music

• Clap if you want to read
• New grants for early years music activities
• Music and child development
• Music and early language initiatives

Research

• Newborn infants detect the beat in music

Resources

• Songs and rhymes - resources for professionals