Hi there, I stutter and I'm a speech language pathologist. First, don't panic. When a young child starts to stutter, it can be a frightening experience for family members. The fact is about 75% of children who develop a stutter grow out of it. Also, help is available. If you ask your pediatrician, he or she might say that you should wait and see or will happen before scheduling an evaluation or beginning speech therapy. This is well meaning but outdated advice. I have strong reservations about waiting to seek an evaluation because the longer a child stutters the more likely he or she is to develop negative reactions to stuttering and the less likely that it is that they will recover naturally. An evaluation with an SLP who is knowledgeable about early childhood stuttering can help determine if this is just a phase or something that could benefit from intervention. There are certain risk factors that have been revealed through extensive research with young children who stutter. One of them is related to age at onset. Children who exhibit later onset of stuttering after 35 months old, may be at a higher risk for continuing to stutter than those who start earlier. Since your daughter started stuttering at 5, this factor would apply. That being said, it sounds like your daughter also has many positive factors that would indicate an easy treatment or recovering spontaneously. Those include being a girl, not having a family history of stuttering, only being 2 months since the onset, strong language skills, and not having any fear or avoidance of stuttering. My recommendation would be to find an SLP who has experience with stuttering and schedule an evaluation. Even if treatment isn't warranted, they can give you some counseling on how to modify the environment and your reaction to her stuttering to foster fluent speech. You can find a list of board certified specialists [here](https://www.stutteringspecialists.org/findspecialist). You can also find SLPs with stuttering expertise [here](https://find.asha.org/pro/#sort=relevancy&f:@provider=). If you have a university in your town, they may also have a communication sciences and disorders program with an on-site clinic. Your local hospital or medical clinic may also have a pediatric speech therapy outpatient unit. Finally, [this little book](https://stutteringtherapyresources.com/products/early-childhood-stuttering-parents) can offer some helpful information and support while you are finding a provider. It's only $5 and is written by one of the leading PhDs in stuttering research. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions or want to follow up on anything. Happy to help.