Music is non-verbal and for children whose words fail them music helps them communicate and bond with the people around them! The power of music is well documented but on a sensory basis this also happens:
- The tactile system is engaged because they are feeling the mallet in their hand
- Their kinesthetic system in engaged as they move their wrist and arm to strike
- Their auditory system is engaged as they listen to the sound of the drum
- Their visual system is engaged as their eyes track the motion of their arm and the mallet in their hand
