Lillian Glass
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Lillian Glass is an American
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 communication and body language expert, media commentator and author. The books she has written incluce Toxic People, He Says She Says, and a body language book, I Know What You're Thinking. She has a monthly body language column in Cosmopolitan Magazine. She is also actively involved as a jury consultant.

Education

Glass received a bachelor of science degree from Bradley University
Bradley University
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 in Speech and Hearing Sciences, where she was named one of Glamour Magazine
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s Top 10 College Women. She earned her master of science degree from the University of Michigan
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, where she became interested in gender differences in communication and the study of cranial and dental- facial abnormalities.

At age 24, she received a doctorate degree from the University of Minnesota
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 and was awarded a Bush Foundation
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 fellowship. She majored in communication disorders, with an emphasis on speech and hearing sciences, and minored in clinical genetics. Her research was later published in professional journals.

Her doctorate dissertation was on psychosocial perceptions of speech and cosmetic appearance of patients with craniofacial abnormalities.

She received a post doctorate in Medical Genetics at UCLA School of Medicine where she received a National Institutes of Health Grant and did research on speech and hearing problems of patients with a variety of genetic diseases, including those with neurological and skeletal problems. Glass published her research in various professional journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine
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 where she discovered there were distinct voice patterns in patients with neurofibromatosis. She also discovered a genetic syndrome involving deafness and a dental abnormality, now termed The Glass-Gorlin Syndrome (oligondtia and sensorineural deafness).

Private practice and celebrity clients

Glass began her private practice in Beverly Hills, California
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, treating patients with speech and hearing difficulties. Later, her practice progressed to training actors for movie roles. One of her first clients was Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
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, whom she helped train to talk like a woman for his roll in the film Tootsie
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. Subsequently, she helped other actors. Among her celebrated clients were Dolph Lundgren
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, Ben Vereen
Ben Vereen
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 Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe
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, Dolly Parton
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, Julio Iglesias
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 (for his song To All the Girls), Sean Connery
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, Christopher Lambert
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 and deaf actress Marlee Matlin
Marlee Matlin
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, whom she coached to speak publicly at the Academy Award Ceremonies and in film roles.

Television

Glass began her television career as a co-host on Alive and Well on USA Network
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 and as a psychology reporter for the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles
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, KABC
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 Television. She appeared frequently as an expert on daytime talk shows, news, entertainment, morning shows, and magazine shows,.

She appears as a regular commentator on the Nancy Grace Show on HLN
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 and MSNBC. Glass is also the body language expert for Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight
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, the Insider, and the Dr. Phil Show

Glass has appeared on reality shows, such as Discovery Network
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's Swim Suit Slimdown, Discovery Health, PAX TV's reality show about quitting smoking Cold Turkey, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
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, and FOX's Busted and Disgusted.

She was the body language expert on Season 8 of Dancing With the Stars
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, BRAVO's Millionaire Matchmaker, and Swift Justice.

Glass was the resident therapist on Chelsea Lately
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 and portrayed herself in the film documentary Love Talk.

Media publications

Glass writes a monthly body language column in Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Her body language analysis of newsmakers has appeared in US Weekly
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, OK! Magazine, Life and Style, Newsweek
Newsweek
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, Hollywoodlife.com, Radaronline.com, Los Angeles Times
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, The New York Times
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, New York Post
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, Washington Post  and USA Today
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, Los Angeles Magazine.

Along with her body-language blog, Glass also writes about celebrities and newsmakers in her blog, "Reading People," for Psychology Today
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. She is also a regular contributor to Women in Crime Ink
Women in Crime Ink
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, which the Wall Street Journal has called "a blog worth reading."

Legal consultant

Glass has provided expert testimony regarding body language, speech and vocal forensics and behavioral analysis. She is has been retained by attorneys as a jury consultant, and has done jury selection and witness preparation.

Beauty Pageant judge

Glass served as a judge in the Miss USA Pageant in 1989 held in Mobile, Alabama
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.

Professional organizations

Glass served on the Board of Governors for the New York Chapter of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) (Grammy Organization).

She is a member of American Society of Composers, and Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG).

Copyright Infringement Trial against Marsha Petrie Sue

While doing a title search on Amazon.com
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, Glass discovered a book entitled "Toxic People" published in 2007 by Marsha Petrie Sue. Glass had written a book by that same title 1995. After reading Marsha Petrie Sue's book, Glass discovered that Petrie Sue had done word for word copying of her materials. Glass then filed a lawsuit in the United States Federal Court in Los Angeles against Marsha Petrie Sue.
Petrie Sue countered with a summary judgment motion and lost.
On December 9, 2010, Glass won a unanimous jury verdict in US Federal Court for copyright infringement against Marsha Petrie Sue (Dr. Lillian Glass v Marsha Petrie Sue Case Number CV 09-08570-RGK (SHx)).

Books

  • How to Deprogram Your Valley Girl 1982 (NY: Workman Publishing). ISBN 0-89480-239-9.
  • Talk to Win- Six Steps to a Successful Vocal Image 1987 (NY: Putman Publishing). ISBN 0-399-511386-8.
  • Confident Conversation, 1991 (London: Piatkus Publishing). ISBN 074991081X (hard cover) . ISBN 0749910852 (soft cover).
  • Say It Right-How to Talk In Any Social or Business Situation 1991, 1992 (NY:Perigee Books). ISBN 0-399051699-9.
  • He Says She Says: Closing the Communication Gap Between the Sexes 1992 (NY: GP. Putnam and Sons). ISBN 0399517375.
  • Toxic People - 10 Ways of Dealing with People Who Make Your Life Miserable 1995 (NY: Simon and Schuster ). ISBN 0684803151 (hard cover). (NY: St. Martin's Press). ISBN 0312152329 (soft cover).
  • Attracting Terrific People- How to Find and Keep the People Who Bring Your Life Joy New 1997 (NY:St. Martin's Press). ISBN 031215058X (hard cover). ISBN 0312180454 (soft cover).
  • I Know What You're Thinking- Using the Four Codes of Reading People to Improve Your Life, 2002 (NY: Wiley). ISBN 0471381403 (hard cover). ISBN 0471430293 (soft cover).
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Verbal Self Defense 1999 (NY: Alpha Books, Macmillan Publishing). ISBN 0028627415.
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Men and Women, 2000 (NY : Alpha Books, Macmillan Publishing). ISBN 0028624149.
  • Toxic Men - 10 ways of Identifying, Dealing With and Healing From Men Who Make Your Life Miserable, 2010 (hard cover) (Massachusetts:Adams Media). ISBN 144050007X

Journals, Papers, and Articles

  • Glass, Lillian. "How to attract terrific people". Single Livng Magazine, NY: January/February 1998 ISSN 0896-4920
  • Glass, Lillian. "To Touch or Not to Touch?" (Body Language). Single Living Magazine, NY:November/December 1997 ISSN 0896-4920
  • Glass, Lillian. "Surviving Office Politics With Panache". Single Living Magazine, NY:July/August 1997. ISSN 0896-4920
  • Glass, Lillian. "How to Add Terrific People to Your Life and Bring Out the Best In Yourself". Bottom Line Personal. pp. 9–10. March 1997. ISBN 0887231322 ISBN 9780887231322
  • Glass, Lillian. "That Special Bond: Human and Animal Communication", Newsweek
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    . (Special Advertising Section), 1996.
  • Glass, Lillian. "Some People Can Make Us Sick". Bottom Line Personal. pp. 7–9.January 1996.
  • Glass, Lillian and Kathleen Doheny. "Speak Volumes". Men's Health
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    , April 1992.
  • Glass, Lillian. "We Are How We Speak- the Benefits of a Positive Vocal Image". Silver Circle Magazine. Spring, 1985.
  • Glass, Lillian. Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Development. 3: 207-212, 1983.
  • Glass, Lillian. "Psychosocial Perceptions of Patients With Craniofacial Anomalies". Paper presented at the XVII Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, São Paulo, Brazil, 1981.
  • Glass, Lillian, von Leden, Hans, Sillence, David O.,.Rimoin, David L.,Stewart, Ray E., "Vocal Characteristics of Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia Patients". Paper presented at the XXVII congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, São Paulo, Brazil, 1981.
  • Glass, Lillian and Vincent M Riccard. "Speech Disorders of Patients with Neurofibromatosis". International Cleft Palate Congress, Acapulco, Mexico, 1981.
  • Glass, Lillian and Vincent M Riccardi. "Speech and Von Recklinghausen Neurofibromatosis". New England Journal of Medicine, 305, 1617–1626, December 31, 1981.
  • Glass, Lillian, Garber, Sharon, R.,. Speidel, T. Michael, Siegel, Gerald, M. "The Effects of Presentation on noise and Dental Appliances on Speech" . Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. Vol.24 151 March 1981
  • Glass. Lillian and R.M. Mason "Normal Speech and Language Development". In Stewart, R.E. et al., Scientific Foundations of Pediatric Dentistry. St. Louis, Missouri: C. V. Mosby Co., 1980.
  • Glass. Lillian and Robert J Gorlin. "Congenital Profound Sensorineural Deafness and Oligodontia—A New Syndrome", (The Glass Gorlin Syndrome) Archives in Otolaryngology, 1980.
  • Glass. Lillian "Speech and Hearing Problems in Short Stature Patients". The Johns Hopkins University Hospital short Stature symposium, June 1980.
  • Glass, Lillian, "Audiological Findings of Patients with Acondroplasia". Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 1980.
  • Wassman, E.R., Sillence, D. O. Rimoin, D. L. Glass, L. Lesavoy, M., and Wheeler, I. "Variability or Genetic Heterogeniety in the Familial Lymphadema Syndromes". Clinical Research. Vol. 28, No. 1, February 1980.
  • Glass, Lillian and Steve Funderberk. "A Case of Arachnodactyly, Micrognathia, Craniosynostosis, and Kyphoscolosis; Possible Archard Syndrome". Clinical Research. Vol. 28, No. 1, 1980.
  • Funderberk and, Ray E. Stewart "Questions About the Inheritance of Oral Clefts". National Foundations of March of Dimes Pamphlet, 1980.
  • Glass, Lillian, Starr, Clark D.,Stewart, Ray E. Hodge, Susan, E., "Identikit Model II- A Potential Tool for Judging Cosmetic Appearance". Cleft Palate Journal, 1980.
  • Glass, Lillian, Stewart, Ray, Eteson, Donna Jane, Hodge, Susan I. and Rimoin David, L. "Speech and Hearing Characteristics of Achondroplastic Dwarfs". Birth Defects Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 1979.
  • Glass, Lillian and Suzanne P Berger." A Screening Technique for Detecting Communication Diisorders in Children for Use in the Dental Office". Paper presented at the California Society of Pediatric Dentists, San Francisco, California 1979.
  • Glass, Lillian, "Speech Problems of Little People". Little People of America Magazine, 1979.
  • Glass, Lillian, Ray E. Stewart, "Judith Miles. The Speech and Language pathologist's Role in Understanding the Genetics of Van Der Voude Syndrome", Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 44: 472-478, 1979.
  • Glass. Lillian, D.J. Eteson, Ray E Stewart, and D. L. Rimoin. "Speech, Hearing, Language and Craniofacial Morphology in Achondroplastic Dwarfs". Paper presented at 36th Annual Cleft Palate Association, February 21, 1979.
  • Glass, Lillian and Clark D Starr. "A Study of Relationships Between Judgments of Speech and Appearance of Patients With Orofacial Clefts". The Cleft Palate Journal. Vol, 16, No. 4pp. 436–440, 1979.
  • Glass, Lillian, and Robert J Gorlin. "Autosomal Dominant Osterosclerosis". Radiology 125,547-548, November 1977.
  • Glass, Lillian, Knapp, John, and Bloomer, H. "Harlan Lingual behavior Before and After Manibular Osteotomy". Journal of Oral Surgery, 35,104-109, 1977.
  • Glass, Lillian, Garber, Sharon, and Michael T Speidel. "Changes in Speech As a Function of Alterations in Oral and Auditory Environment". Paper presented at the 93rd Meeting of the American Acoustc Society, University Park Pennsylvania, 1977.
  • Glass, Lillian. "Coping with the Bilingual Child". American Speech and Hearing Association Journal.pp. 512–519, 1976.
  • Glass, Lillian. "Performance of Bilingual Cuban-American Aphasic patients on a task of Body Part Identification". Human Communication. 1, 29-35, 1976

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