So I've been reading a lot of scientific articles about the developmental aspects of stuttering. 5% of children experience a period of stuttering, 80% of those children make a full recovery and never experience stuttering again. - Stuttering develops out of a genetic/biological predisposition; a region of grey matter in the brain lags behind in development, and the "wires" in your brain don't connect where they're supposed to. When a child grows out of stuttering, that region of the brain catches up in size to their peers and the speech circuit "re-wires" itself to function like a fluent speaker. The behavioral approach of praising fluent speech is the most popular at the moment, but I have serious doubts that it achieves anything. The Lidcombe group - who developed the approach - show statistics that their program reduces the number of stuttered syllables. And that's true. But it doesn't reduce that number to zero, which is the goal when we're dealing with young stutterers. So I'm not a fan of their program or how they advertise it. So what should you do? The scientific community knows what it looks like for a child to recover from stuttering, but they haven't pinpointed what causes that change. It could happen on its own, which would be great, but we still want to take proactive steps because if it doesn't happen, it becomes a lifelong affliction. So here's my advice, and I'll preface it by saying it's my own speculation: Have him read aloud from a book during those daily ten minutes. I'd even recommend twenty minutes if you can manage that. From my own experience as an adult stutterer, reading aloud for twenty minutes at a time flushes out a dysfluent streak I may have been in, and significantly improves my fluency. - Coming back to the neuroscience angle, I think the goal is to increase the volume of fluent speech in hopes it will stimulate the brain to function the way it's supposed to. Reading for twenty minutes straight is a lot of speech, and it will probably be more fluent than conversation. Best of luck. Let us/me know how it goes. And for anyone who would like to read more, [here's](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6486457/) a great article that covers most of what's currently known about the neuroscience of stuttering. I'll warn you that it's incredibly dense. But, if you can wait another year or so, I'm currently writing a book that (hopefully) will translate these findings into something a layperson can understand.