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I'm doing speech to text so excuse any grammar spelling errors . It's a difficult question to answer. When I'm looking at children and deciding whether or not they would be appropriate candidates for speech therapy, I look at risk factors that would indicate stuttering would continue instead of recover without any intervention. Since you mentioned there is a genetic component being that you also stutter I would recommend trying to find an SLP who specializes in stuttering to do an evaluation and take into consideration any other risk factors that would indicate stuttering may persist. Often parents and clinicians are told to wait and see before starting therapy for preschool children who stutter because most children who begin to stutter will ultimately develop typical fluency to do a high rate of natural recovery. However, therapy is usually never a bad thing, and can help in a number of key ways by reducing stuttering more quickly and reducing the child's concerns about their speech before they develop negative reactions. Unfortunately, we don't yet have the ability to determine in advance or with certainty which children will recover . Happy to chat more. Feel free to DM me.