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I also had delayed speech. Had speech therapy in school and other various programs starting at 4-5. The biggest thing I would say is don’t tell him it’s probably going to go away. My mother was super ...

>I believe my family ended it a year or two ago. What's this mean? Your _family_ decided you shouldn't go to therapy anymore? - >my family will yell at me and tell me to hurry it up Oh. Oh.....

A stutter doesn’t randomly appear due to stress, but will get worse due to it. My situation isn’t identical but mine went away for all of middle school and came back when I was around 13 and was enter...

Perhaps. Was it difficult for you? Maybe he won't have any problems. It's hard to say in advance, because we neither know how he'll develop, nor how he'll handle whatever stutter might be there....

Well, in that case... is stutter a problem for him? If it's not, maybe there's no need to do anything. If it is - maybe he realizes it himself sooner and later, and is open to therapy once again (ma...

Well, I stutter and my daughter stutters also. I intentionally opted not to put my daughter into speech therapy. Both my daughter and I are mild stutterers, and my thought was to not bring more attent...

8 years old is a great age to begin speech therapy, he will be aware but still malleable. I'd strongly suggest looking into it. What's his opinion on speech therapy? Speech therapy impacts every pati...

Apart from other comments offering great advice on how to make the stutter better, I am here to say that, **IF he doesn't get better, don't push him too hard.** Of course, I wish the best for your s...

There’s a good chance he could grow out of it, but in the meantime I would get him some speech therapy. there’s not much you could honestly do yourself to fix his speech...

As a stuttering son of 16, I would ask her what she wants mostly. Does she want to do like reading exercises? Breathing exercises? Just speaking normally at the dinner table about her day? Keep it fun...

Hi, I am a father of a 14 yr old daughter who stutters. I stutter also. Your daughter is still young, so hopefully speech therapy will work for her, try it and see. For myself, speech therapy didn't ...

You should go to a therapist, they'll know what to do. But please try to be patient and let her finish her sentences. Also if she stutters it doesn't mean she's gonna have a terrible life, it all depe...

How early do you see a speech therapist?

How early do you see a speech therapist? My 2.5 year old has started stuttering pretty consistently. I’d say she stutters in about 70% of the sentences she speaks and sometimes runs out of breath tryi...

First of all, if you are on this subreddit already you obviously deeply care about your child, and that is a fantastic support for their future! I highly recommend purchasing a few books on the sub...

I have a 4 year old son who has been going to therapy for the past 1 year and the current lockdown has been detrimental to his fluency (live in NYC). We follow all recommendations at home, but not be...

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Update A year ago I came on here a little lost when my 6 year old developed a stutter. Linking to original post, might not be doing it correctly https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/9j9170/my_so...

My 7 yr old boy stutters which was intermittent at first now is getting progressively worse . He is a very smart and confident boy and that has not yet stopped him from speaking . I really want to get...

It gets better when you get older. Plus, you can distance yourself from the assholes who make fun of it. It really helps weed people out of my life, I use the example: would you make fun of someone in...

The reason why we are not bringing attention to it is because we don't want her to become insecure about it. Unfortunately in order to get her into a speech pathologist we have to have a referral fro...

You should take her to a speech-language pathologist who specializes in fluency disorders. It is possible that since your daughter isn’t aware of the disfluencies the SLP will use an indirect method i...