My Thoughts:

In this blog you should learn all that it is to know about lisping. I have inserted pictures, videos, even individual posts inorder to help you, the reader, to better understand everything it is to know about this speech impairment. This is a very interesting topic and I am pretty sure... well I am more than positive that after reading this blog you will take away atleast one thing that you did not know or you will gain a better understanding of what you thought you already knew. I have many goals for this blog or in other words things that I would like my readers to understand after reading this post. First, I would hope that my readers grasp a better understanding of lisping, second I hope you, the reader, understand that lisping maybe simple to you but to those who have this impairment it is much more and third, you the reader should take this matter seriously and not laugh or make that person with the impairment feel anything but uncomfortable. After reading my blog I would hope that if given a test each reader could atleast answer these three basic questions: 1. What is a lisp 2. What causes lisping and 3. List one assumption made by people when referring to lisping.

A lithp is just a lisp

1. A speech defect characterized by mispronunciation of the sounds "s" and "z" but instead "th" 2. To speak with a lisp

Friday, October 23, 2009

The Prevalence of Lisping in Young Adults




This next article I read, "The Prevalence of Lisping in Young Adults" by: John Van Borsel located in the Journal of Communication Disorders, talks about a study that was performed on various young adults of students of Ghent University in Belgium whom would be enrolled in speech language pathology. The study was done because the the frontal lisping s and z was still present in their speech. 748 students, ages 18-22, were put through the test of being videotaped while reading "The North Wind of the Sun..." There were no noticeable difference between females and males that lisped however there came out to be a 23.3% prevalence of lisping. Of those diagnosed with lisping, the females where more aware of their lisping than men.
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Who Does This Speech Impairment Effect:

Who Does This Speech Impairment Effect:
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