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>I am not sure how his mew friends/teachers will react to his stutter. Anyways, I am sure that he will do well. He is a really nice guy and a kind fellow. He'll be fine. Making friends in college is really easy. No one knows anyone and everyone is looking to make friends. Unless he locks himself in his room, he'll make new friends in a few weeks and they'll be as close as the friends he has in high school in a few months. His friends might tease him about it here and there (not in a mean way), but that honestly always helped me because injecting humor into the situation broke my anxiety and made me more fluent in the moment. Most teachers will acknowledge the disability and be willing to make accommodations for it if needed. >Do you have any tips for him on how to cope in the worst possible situations? any way to have a temporary control over his speech and reduce stuttering. To be honest, he is going to have some rough moments. There is not much you can do besides stopping, verbally acknowledging the stutter to the person you are talking to ("sorry, sometimes my stutter makes it hard to communicate" or something to that effect), taking a deep breath, and then trying to push through. Most people are not dicks about it and will be patient with him. Immediate temporary solutions are word substitutions to avoid problematic sounds, but this is not a feasible long-term approach and should normally not be used. Stuttering and social anxiety kind of go hand in hand, so the less he cares about what people think about him, generally the more fluent his speech will be. Arriving at the point of not caring about what others think is more of a goal than a possibility, though.