I hope PEOPLE WHO STUTTER will find the perspective offered in the feature article, and advice offered specifically in the section “for people who stutter”, to be extremely useful in helping them deal with therapy for stuttering and its associated psychosocial pathology.

I also hope ACADEMICS and CLINICIANS will find the expanded terminology to be extremely useful to their efforts as well as it clearly points the way for use of differential diagnosis.

I realise new ideas can appear confrontational to some. However I hope the value of the proposed concepts will be seen to outweigh the stress of adjustment, and that everyone will soon benefit  from the introduction of the term Stuttered Speech Syndrome, and thereby more accurately discuss, research and treat the condition previously just known as stuttering.