Benefits of Adding a Psychomotor Therapy Over a Combined‐Approach Treatment in Adults who Stutter: A Randomized Controlled Trial

What is already known on the subject Two types of strategies to treat stuttering have been most widely used: stuttering management and fluency shaping. Although there is no consensus in the literature about the best strategy to treat stuttering, in general, comprehensive (combined) approaches seem to provide the best results. Furthermore, the development of psychomotor factors can help the individual to perform more efficient linguistic operations, thus favouring the development of its own communication and potentially improving stuttering. What this paper adds to the existing knowledge This randomized controlled trial did not demonstrate any benefit of adding a psychomotor therapy over a standard combined-approach treatment in young AWS. In addition to these results, this paper reinforces that the traditional speech-language treatment is highly effective in improving stuttering severity. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? A psychomotor therapy did not improve the efficacy of the traditional combined-approach stuttering treatment in AWS, and it shall not be used. Otherwise, it reinforces the efficacy of the standard speech-language treatment even in AWS with a long-standing history of stuttering, which supports the effective approaches in clinical practice of speech-language pathologists worldwide.