The journal entry that I read was called, "The Prevalence of Lisping in Gay Men." located in the Journal of Communication Disorders, March 2009 issue by John Van Borsel. Starting off, the author starts the article with a statement reflecting lisping in children and around what age lisping is considered a speech disorder. I learned something that I never really paid any attention to or thought about in depth when researching my Blog subject. Not at anytime, did I think that lisping had anything to do with gay men. According to the article, there has been various studies on gay men reflecting their speech levels, articulatory behavior, and lisping in their speech. In the speech level test, gay men speech levels where compared to heterosexual men. The studiers wanted to find if there would be a difference in levels in their speeches, ending results found no difference in the speech levels. Lisping in gay men would show somewhat of a difference between gay men and heterosexual men. 175 gay male, 100 heterosexual, and 100 heterosexual female participants were used in this study. The ending results showed that in gay males their was a higher usage of lisping in the younger age group than in the older age group.
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