Music As A Tool To Bolster Kids’ Social Emotional Skills During COVID-19

Research has shown music instruction to increase social connectivity and interpersonal skills in toddlers.

By Bianca Martin
Preemie Music Therapy
Music therapist Elizabeth Klinger, right, quietly plays guitar and sings for Augustin as he grips the hand of his mother, Lucy Morales, in the newborn intensive care unit at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. M. Spencer Green / ASSOCIATED PRESS
Preemie Music Therapy
Music therapist Elizabeth Klinger, right, quietly plays guitar and sings for Augustin as he grips the hand of his mother, Lucy Morales, in the newborn intensive care unit at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. M. Spencer Green / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Music As A Tool To Bolster Kids’ Social Emotional Skills During COVID-19

Research has shown music instruction to increase social connectivity and interpersonal skills in toddlers.

By Bianca Martin
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Nickelodeon Jr.’s learning platform Noggin is launching a new initiative in response to pre-schools closures and social isolation for kids that centers music learning as a tool to build social emotional skills for kids whose development has been disrupted by COVID.

Reset brings on the senior vice president of learning and impact for Noggin to hear more about the initiative and two teachers at a Chicago area school of music to share how their classes with toddler and infants are going at this time.

GUESTS: Michael H. Levine, senior vice president of learning and impact for Nick Jr. Noggin

Lisa Joy DeRosia, Wiggleworms teacher, Old Town School of Folk Music

Anne-Marie Akin, Wiggleworms teacher, Old Town School of Folk Music