Bjorem Speech Blog

Can Non-Speaking Children Learn to Read? Breanna Waldrup, MS, CCC-SLP Let’s get straight to the answer – YES, non-speaking children CAN learn to read. This may seem confusing since many of us first learned to read by reading aloud and reading skills are often tested and demon...

The Difference Between Bjorem Speech® Minimal Pairs Decks and Cycles Decks When it comes to effective speech therapy tools, Bjorem Speech® offers a wide range of resources tailored to address various speech and phonological disorders. Two of our most popular tools are the Min...

The Importance of Multisensory Learning for Kids Multisensory learning is an educational approach that engages more than one sense at a time. This method is especially beneficial for young learners, as it helps to solidify their understanding and retention of new information....

What is Bjorem Better Letters™ with The Laurie Berkner Band Card Deck? Inspired by the original Bjorem Speech® Sound Cues, Bjorem Better Letters™ contains SIX decks organized into one box, each seamlessly integrating with Laurie Berkner’s “Better Letters” songs for a harmoni...

Do you have kids on your caseload with such significant phonological deficits and have so many sounds in error that you’re just not sure where to begin? It can be pretty defeating when you’re not certain about what direction to take in therapy. Do you start with earlier devel...

Effective speech therapy hinges on the frequency of practice, particularly for children with speech sound disorders (SSDs). Research emphasizes the importance of high repetitions in therapy sessions. Sugden et al. (2018) found an average of 77 trials per session to be effectiv...

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The Bjorem Speech Sound Cues are picture cues that represent each phoneme in the English language through the use of an environmental sound children can relate to! These cues are popular with speech pathologists, literacy specialists and ELL or ESL (English Language Learners/E...

We all know that our work comes with a delightful jumble of speech therapy materials, and if you're anything like us, you probably consider organization a love language at this point. I can already see it: you're gearing up for a therapy session or packing your on-the-go speec...

If you are an SLP then you know how to work with minimal pairs (words that differ by only one sound), so here is a quick overview, and for parents, here it goes! Using minimal pairs is an effective and quick way to help your child break their speech habit of substituting a so...