Toobaloo, Blue
The Toobaloo is an innovative phone-like device that allows children to hear themselves clearly while speaking softly into it. The design of the Toobaloo magnifies their voice allowing them to hear their sounds and words distinctly. The Toobaloo is made of break-resistant plastic and is lightweight for easy handling. Easy to clean with liquid dishwashing soap, alcohol wipes, or put it on the top rack of the dishwasher. Measures 6-1/2"W x 1-3/4"L x 2-3/4"H. Nontoxic. made in the USA. CPSIA Certified.

Who uses the Toobaloo?
• 3 years old to adults
• Classroom teachers
• Reading teachers
• Speech Pathologists
• Special Education teachers
• Music teachers
• Foreign Language teachers
• Parents

Toobaloo with Speech:
• Used by speech pathologists to help clients with fluency disorders, monitor and regulate their speech
• Provide auditory feedback to help the clients detect their errors (articulation, phonological)
• Help to regulate vocal intensity and self monitor their fluency
• Motivates students to use correct productions and good vocal qualities
• Lightweight and portable, which can be sent home for practice to promote carryover

Benefits of the Toobaloo:
• Helps students focus on their voice while reading by making their speech louder and clearer
• Help students build confidence in reading and comprehension
• Students need to practice oral reading at a level of effortlessness for fluency and comprehension
• Provides motivation to read and reread their stories
• Gives students opportunities to read aloud daily
• Improve self-esteem for all levels of readers
• Students are able to listen more clearly to their reading rate, phrasing and expression (sound, duration, pitch and stress)
• Encourage a quieter voice

Ways to use the Toobaloo:
• The whole class can practice reading aloud to themselves without disturbing other students. (This gives students oral reading time and, at the same time, allows the teacher to move around the classroom and listen to individuals read)
• Small groups can use their TOOBALOOS at a center to practice rereading
• Students can use their TOOBALOOS during or after a guided reading group
• Students can practice reading and rereading individually with the stories they are working on
• Students can check out a TOOBALOO to take home to practice with WRITING!!!! Have your students reread their stories into the TOOBALOO for editing
• SPELLING - practice spelling into the TOOBALOO

Grade Level: PreK, 4 and up