Bjorem® Vocabulary - Everyday Words for Speech and Language

The Bjorem Speech® Vocabulary: Everyday Words for Speech & Language Deck is a comprehensive, research-based resource designed to support vocabulary development and language growth in children across clinical, classroom, and home settings.

Created for speech-language pathologists, educators, and parents, this versatile vocabulary deck targets not only word learning, but also a wide range of essential language skills including categorization, describing, comparing and contrasting, associations, parts of speech, verb tenses, prepositions, problem solving, and expanding mean length of utterance.

Organized by category and rooted in evidence-based practice, this deck helps children build meaningful vocabulary systems rather than memorizing isolated words, supporting long-term comprehension, expressive language, and literacy development.

Key Features

• Research-based vocabulary intervention for speech therapy and language development  
• Over 20 thematic categories to support semantic organization  
• Supports a wide range of skills: Categorization, describing, comparing/contrasting, word associations, parts of speech, instructional verbs, verb tenses, prepositions, problem solving, utterance expansion
• Designed for speech sound disorders, phonological awareness, literacy, and expressive/receptive language  
• Child-centered, play-based and explicit instruction supported by current research  
• Flexible for individual therapy, small groups, classrooms, and home carryover

Contents

Including but not limited to:

• Power Words
• Home
• Food
• School
• Animals
• Toys
• Transportation
• Instructional Verbs
• Adjectives
• Verbs
• Emotions
• Community Helpers
• Places
• Clothing
• Sports
• Weather
• Technology
• Outdoors
• Accessibility

Benefits

For Children

• Builds functional, everyday vocabulary
• Strengthens semantic networks and word retrieval
• Improves expressive language and sentence formulation
• Supports grammar development and syntactic accuracy  
• Enhances phonological awareness and early literacy skills  
• Encourages higher-level thinking through problem solving and comparison
• Promotes generalization across real-world contexts

For Clinicians and Educators

• Saves planning time with ready-to-use, research-aligned materials
• Allows for differentiation across ages and ability levels
• Easily integrates into articulation therapy, phonological therapy, language intervention, and literacy support
• Supports evidence-based vocabulary instruction and carryover