For whom does the Sebezaphone ring?

  • Young children – oral stimulation boosts language and neural pathway development
  • Beginning, Emergent and Progressing Readers – assists in mastery of decoding skills – phonemes are heard more clearly and distinctly, enabling children to acquire phonemic awareness and stronger phonologic-processing neural pathways. Letters and letter patterns are more quickly connected to phonemes
  • Transitional and Fluent Readers – improves fluency and confidence as readers and thinkers
  • Struggling and adolescent learners – Sebezaphone provide a level of privacy and thus overcomes reluctance to read out loud due to self-consciousness and fear of embarrassment of peers hearing them read. The S-phones allow learners to practice out loud reading without others hearing them.
  • ADD learners – improves focus and attention on task; learners are intentionally listening to their own voice and distracting background noises are removed.
  • Second language learners – amplifies correct pronunciations and intonation, enables self-correction
  • Hearing impaired learners –the voice is amplified for better hearing
  • Remedial work with people with learning disabilities
  • Speech therapy – auditory feedback assists in self-correction and fluency
  • Home learning – develops phonemic awareness and ability to think along with text to construct personal meaning and to learn from reading
  • Aspiring actors and oral readers (Readers’ Theatre) – immediate and auditory feedback on oral expression, articulation, fluency and intonation
  • Everyone – develops metacognitive awareness and thinking strategies that good readers use to make personal meaning from the text, gain greater pleasure and understanding, and to learn from reading.