What medications have you found to be effective for childhood-onset speech fluency disorder?
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Psychiatry · Siu Psychiatry
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I believe that speech therapy is needed for this and not a problem that medications will help, or I would not recommend it for this condition. There are no FDA-approved medications.
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Psychiatry · Private Pratice
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Thanks for your question, which sent me down a rabbit hole searching for an answer. While it's true that there are no FDA-approved medications for speech fluency disorders (at any age), there are for co-morbid disorders such as Social Anxiety, Tourette's, and ADHD. One hopes that the new muscarinic ...
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Psychiatry · Costello Clinic
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Hi all,
- I agree that no medications are indicated for speech fluency specifically. However, age-appropriate assessments remain the first-order issue, including hearing and general developmental functioning with younger children in particular being even time-critical. Speech therapy assessment and i...
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