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As a fellow parent of a 6 year old son with a sever stutter, I feel your concern. I worry all the time about how my son will continue to handle bullying and issues with his stutter. So far, he's handling it like a champ. But we are in a very small school district (6 students in his grade and most he's been in class with since PK). Our school also has an amazing speech pathologist. Hes aware that he stutters. He talks about it. He talks about the techniques they teach at school. At home, sometimes I let him stay up past bedtime because that's when he feels most comfortable talking. (When everyone else is in bed and it's just me and him. ) At some point, I think it might be helpful for my son to meet others who stutter. I haven't looked into yet, but I believe there are groups. ETA Our speech team has done great at normalizing disfluency, which has helped my son accept it. They talk about everyone having "bumpy" speech at times.