Hope I'm not too late to answer this. I first realized I stuttered when I started getting bullied for it. I always knew something was different, but I never realized exactly what until I started getting harassed in about second grade. If you want a literal time range, I started stuttering around 3 years old. I'm 21 now. My parents never wanted to single me out until it "was time" to tell me why kids were being cruel. I got speech therapy up until I was about 16 and it never really helped. If anything, I only went because I wanted to make my parents happy. When I admitted it wasn't helping and that's the only reason I was going, they let me quit. They tried their damndest to work on strategies with me since my stutter has always been pretty severe. This isn't a slight against how the speech therapists were doing or how hard they tried - most really did try their best. I stutter most...any time. My speech is atrocious. As with most cases, it spikes when I'm under intense anxiety. Like if my boss calls me in, I might as well be mute. What helps me most is extremely controversial. I would NOT recommend this to just anyone, I don't condone it as actual medical advice, and I want to make it very clear that this is a very strange topic. I've met experienced speech therapists who actually recommended to try - and hear me out here - medical marijuana when I became old enough. When I became legal age for the US (21, last year) I tried it and it worked wonders. The indica strain has a very positive effect on me and I haven't spoken so easily in my entire life. Indica is a strain of THC that has a very "head" located high. It slows down whatever is causing my stutter. I just wish I wasn't completely out of my mind for the entire duration I'm able to speak like a normal person. It's an unfortunate drawback, but it's nice to have a conversation now and again, even if I'm totally out of it. Of course, I don't do anything potentially harmful (like driving) under the influence nor go to work like this. This is purely occasional on my own time. I have yet to find anything else this effective. My friends, as a kid, abandoned me without a second thought because they realized hanging out with a disabled person was hurting their popularity. Ouch. Nowadays, my friends are online and don't care about my speech. Maturity helps a lot. If somebody was an adult and STILL had the same mindset about a stutter, they have growing up to do already. My mom had an acquired stutter for several months due to blunt trauma done by a car accident, so she has enough experience to know what it's like. I'm lucky enough my parents and family don't terrorize me for something I can't control. As for my coworkers, they don't really care. They're there the same reason I am. For a paycheck and to go home at the end of the day. Any advice I have, just searching out stutterers and asking questions already gives you a leg up. It's one thing to study textbooks cover to cover and read what they say, it's another thing to go out and ask people who have it and seek a variety of honest answers. There's not a lot of people like you out there empathetic enough to just ASK. I've had good therapists, and bad therapists. You're already going to be a fantastic speech therapist. Remember each case is different, different things help different people; textbooks are never going to have all the answers. I wholeheartedly wish you luck with any future endeavors.