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4 year old stutters; not sure what to do My 4 and a half year old son has been in speech therapy since he was 1 year old. He didn’t talk at all until the age of 2, and he barely talked from age 2 to 3. Suddenly at age 3, his speech exploded. However, a few months later he developed a severe stutter seemingly overnight, and it was extremely hard to understand him. He continued in speech therapy and made great progress, and got to the point where he rarely stuttered for several months. His speech was so good that the speech therapist discharged him from therapy at school a couple months ago. But recently- I’ve noticed it getting worse again. I’m not sure what to do. I don’t want him to have negative emotions about it. Do I wait it out and just continue ignoring it? Do I put him back in speech therapy? (Would probably do private therapy this time). I don’t want to treat it like a big deal, but if putting him back in therapy would help him later in life because he’s so young, I would do that. The problem is we live in a rural area and there aren’t any SLPs that specialize in stuttering. That being said- I have seen some that do remote/online sessions. Are these helpful/worth it? Do I just give him more time? I want to do whatever will benefit him most.