Psychiatry and the Treatment of Stuttering: A Blossoming Partnership

Key Takeaways

• A formal consensus process produced multidisciplinary guidance for stuttering, emphasizing childhood-onset fluency disorder as a clinical entity requiring coordinated assessment and management.
• Partnership with the Stuttering Treatment and Research Society anchored the recommendations in specialty expertise and contemporary research.
• Editorial participation during drafting highlighted the interface of psychiatry, neurology, and speech-language pathology in translating evidence into actionable treatment insights.
• Clinicians are encouraged to submit deidentified patient cases and clinical pearls to support ongoing professional education and real-world applicability of guidance.