Group singing (choirs) and musical social activities can benefit mental wellness. Why does music unite us? The Speak Real podcast brings you Dr. Arla Good, a psychology researcher for the SingWell Project at TMU.
The SingWell Project at Toronto Metropolitan University is an international network of researches on government organizations, practitioners and community choirs on the mission to understand information and inspire choirs for people living with communication challenges, like Parkinson’s or aphasia, in order to support their communication function, sense of belonging, and social and psychological wellbeing by singing in a group.
Dr. Arla is a music enthusiast studying music cognition who was researching how to bring music to audience that has trouble hearing, using song to support foreign language learning to remember vocabulary and more.
Resources listed by Dr. Arla:
The SingWell Project: www.singwell.ca/
The Smart Lab: psychlabs.toro...
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Dr. Arla's email: singwell@torontomu.ca
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29 сен 2024
