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From: Judy Kuster
Date: 13 Oct 2010
Time: 08:18:30 -0500
Remote Name: 76.17.183.48
The answers you received are good ones, and I'm also not familiar with the LACK of smiling as it relates to stuttering. I am familiar with the opposite, however - using smiling and a little chuckle as an avoidance behavior or a distraction to deflect attention away from the stutter. There is a beautiful example of this in Sheehan's film on Stuttering. The very attractive young woman who stutters is describing her "ideal man." Interesting fact is that many years after that film was made, I met that woman. She had become a speech-language pathologist! Judy