A discussion/question vlog: Carl Schroeder wonders if the intriguing connections between music and cognitive development in children with CI. Research shows that music can help children (hearing) with other disabilities (dyslexia, learning difficulties, etc.) listen and learn. Can children with CI benefit from the connections between music and education?
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Of course! I have a personal testimony to this experience. A deaf child I knew back about 12 years ago did not seem to pick anything up even though ASL was used at home and the parents were fluent in ASL. The father ran into an article that talked about how music helps children learn better. The father made a decision to purchase musical instruments such as harmonica, flute, guitar and a bongo drum for the child to play with. Before that the child had zero rhythm skill but developed a strong rhythm skill afterwards. His education took off rapidly and seem to learn better. Call it cognitive development if you like but I've witnessed this development and know it's true. It's not a question of whether CI is going to play an important role in this development. Music was all it took for this deaf child. Good v/blog!
Dyscalculia is a learning problem affecting many individuals.
However, less is known about this disability than about reading disability because American society accepts learning problems in mathematics as quite normal.
It is characterized by a poor understanding of the number concept and the number system.
Difficulties are presented in counting, giving and receiving change, tipping, learning abstract concepts of time and direction, telling and keeping track of time and the sequence of past and future events.
I can see a big problem for children with CI when they take math classes. I've met some adults with CI said that they have very hard time learning math while taking classes in school.
Question to Dr. Hocokan...
How did the deaf child get "musical rhythms"? Was he/she taught? Did he/she use hearing aids or audio-assistances? Can you explain the 'transition" from zero-music appreciation of deaf to obtaining "strong rhythm"?
I can understand hard of hearing children achieving this.
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