I developed my stutter around the age of 5. In elementary school and middle school, I had sessions with the school’s speech pathologist. The speech therapy was decent, but not great. I saw another speech professional a couple of times in high school and underwent hypnotherapy once which actually helped for a few years. In college, I underwent speech therapy and it did help. Overall, therapy for anxiety/depression is what has helped my speech the most. Meditation has helped the most with relaxing and smoothing my fluency. I’m 27 and still stutter. I never ‘grew out of it.’ I have my good days and bad days with my speech. From my perspective, it helps if you wait patiently for me to get my words out and not put words in my mouth. This can be different for everyone. It doesn’t and hasn’t helped when people have told me to just relax or slow down. Just being supportive is super helpful. Yeah I got made fun of by my peers when I was younger, and even today other adults may poke fun at my stutter. Even had a middle school teacher make fun of my stutter in front of the whole class. It doesn’t bother me much anymore. You’re a real piece of work if you make fun of someone with a stutter. I don’t stutter when I sing or talk to myself and I stutter way less if I’m in safe spaces - like with family or close friends. It helps to know you will not be judged if you stutter. My advice would be to look into speech therapy. If that doesn’t work, sometimes just regular ole therapy can help a lot too - even for kiddos. My stutter is a symptom of my anxiety. I wasn’t diagnosed with anxiety until early 20’s. It just depends on what your kiddos respond the best to.