diff --git a/docs/library/uasyncio.rst b/docs/library/uasyncio.rst
index ff3232ebda..c0d0e85d71 100644
--- a/docs/library/uasyncio.rst
+++ b/docs/library/uasyncio.rst
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ TCP stream connections
 .. class:: Stream()
     
     This represents a TCP stream connection.  To minimise code this class implements
-    both a reader and a writer.
+    both a reader and a writer, and both ``StreamReader`` and ``StreamWriter`` alias to
+    this class.
 
 .. method:: Stream.get_extra_info(v)
 
diff --git a/extmod/uasyncio/__init__.py b/extmod/uasyncio/__init__.py
index 6bff13883a..da8b58061e 100644
--- a/extmod/uasyncio/__init__.py
+++ b/extmod/uasyncio/__init__.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ _attrs = {
     "Lock": "lock",
     "open_connection": "stream",
     "start_server": "stream",
+    "StreamReader": "stream",
+    "StreamWriter": "stream",
 }
 
 # Lazy loader, effectively does:
diff --git a/extmod/uasyncio/stream.py b/extmod/uasyncio/stream.py
index 7803ac4bfa..2a1efd1a17 100644
--- a/extmod/uasyncio/stream.py
+++ b/extmod/uasyncio/stream.py
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ class Stream:
         self.out_buf = b""
 
 
+# Stream can be used for both reading and writing to save code size
+StreamReader = Stream
+StreamWriter = Stream
+
+
 # Create a TCP stream connection to a remote host
 async def open_connection(host, port):
     from uerrno import EINPROGRESS