SingWell Project

The SingWell project considers group singing as a meaningful social activity for people living with communication challenges (CC) that appears to have potential to support communication function. While other effective interventions already exist for supporting communication deficits in CC, they tend to be costly to deploy, not widely available in remote communities, and generally not effective with regard to combating social well-being issues related to CC. Thus, group singing for CC appears to be an important complementary intervention worthy of further consideration from scientific, practical, economic, and ethical standpoints.

SingWell will be exploring a variety of social and biological measures over the lifetime of the project by capitalizing on the variety of research studies that will be completed to inform the answers to the following research questions:
Will group singing support social well-being and communication function in people living with communication challenges?
Will these benefits accrue over regular engagement with choir?
Will group singing show an added benefit to social wellbeing compared to other group activities?
What are the neurobiological underpinnings of these benefits?