Your child probably likes to listen to fairy tales and stories told by

professional dictates. And this gives you the opportunity to take it and do your business or, conversely, spend time together. And what the experts say? How useful or harmful audiobooks are for a developing psyche are reflected with the expert.

Scientists say that children still hear their mother’s speech in the womb. They advise pregnant women to talk with a baby that has not yet been born or include classical music. That is why newborns will recognize their own voice and calm down quite quickly when mom sings lullabies.

In the early stages of the development of the world, most of the information comes to us through a hearing. Whether audiobooks play a positive role in this process, or only “living” speech helps full development? Let’s figure it out.

What are good audiobooks?

1. Audiobooks teach to perceive information by ear

Audioscasms came to us for a long time: they were released on vinyl records. However, since the TV and the Internet have appeared in the modern world, the visual channel of the perception of our children has become noticeably prevailing over the audio.

Parents often complain that the child does not hear speech addressed to them and quickly forgets what was said. Audiobooks can teach to concentrate and perceive information by ear, while without loading vision.

American neurosurgeon John Markman claims: since we cannot audiobooks as ordinary as usual, “turn over a couple of pages back” and re -read, we unintentionally force our brain to understand and remember phrases.

2. Audiobooks help the development of speech and expand the horizons

It is important for you that the child understands and learn the content of the text? Then calmly put him an audiobook. Actors have the right speech and impeccable diction. Listening to them, children better learn the content of the story and enrich their vocabulary. Like paper publications, audiobooks expand the horizons of the child.

3. Audiobooks teach multitasking

Listening to audiobooks, you can combine different classes. For example, simultaneously draw, sculpt, build a house from the designer and much more.

In the modern world, such multitasking, the ability to concentrate on two processes at the same time – very useful skills. According to some reports*, the habit of listening to audiobooks increases the results of tests with multimodular training by 21%.

4. Audiobooks prepare for reading

Do not think that audiobooks are the destiny of the lazy. The child will not stop reading if the book is interesting to him. If your child does not like paper media, then an audiobook, on the contrary, can contribute to the solution of this problem.

First try to put the child in the audio format, and then read the printed version together. The preschooler will already know the heroes and surely with pleasure begins to leaf through the pages.