Don’t give up hope. As a lifelong stutterer when our 4 year old daughter began to stutter I was horrified. I made all kinds of promises to god that I would do anything if this lifelong curse would be lifted from her. Amazingly, I learned that stuttering is not uncommon to very young children whose language is being formed. Guess what? By the age of 5 1/2 she became totally fluent without any intervention. As an adult her career requires public speaking and she has no memory of not being fluent. In her case, my case as a mother, I wonder if having made an intervention at her young age might have made things worse by creating a sense of trauma in her mind. Perhaps an intervention would have created self identification as ‘not normal, damaged’ in some way, and increased her anxiety over speaking. Btw. I stutter, my father stuttered in his early life, my mother in law stuttered. How would I not believe that my precious child would have a lifelong stutter?