To be fair, most SLPs don't know much about stuttering and what they learn in grad school, if anything, is likely outdated or plain wrong. It's not an acquirable behavior. It's a neuromotor communication disorder. The point of my post was that growing up stuttering doesn't have to be awful. I know several parents who have children who stutter who are thriving in life, stutter and all. Stuttering doesn't matter all that much. They stutter as much or as little as the stutters come out and don't worry about it. Doesn't bother them very much. It also doesn't matter to the majority of people, it's not that important. But the meaning we give to it and the associations we make about it, oftentimes unconsciously, are what can make it such an isolating, helpless, and shameful condition. The good news is that you and your husband can influence and shape all of those things for the positive. And **good** therapy can help on top of that.