I, most likely, live in a different country than you, so the situation might be different. I developed a stutter at that age, it didn't go away. In my experience, local, general speech therapists are useless. You need to find someone, who specifically works with stutter and actually has good reviews. This might help, but it's not guaranteed. The therapy I received "cured" me for a few months, but to keep the effect longer I had to spend at least an hour a day doing exercises. I can't do that, so I am back to where I started. My stutter got a little better once I grew up, but it is still there. I live a normal life, stutter isn't a problem for me. In primary school some of my classmates did use my stutter as a way to offend me (just like they called others fat, four-eyed and etc.), but around 6-7th grade that stopped. Sure, now some strangers start giggling at first, but then they quickly realize that it's inappropriate and stop. Really, stutter isn't the end of the world. I have a girlfriend, friends. I work in research, so I have to talk with my colleagues and present my work at conferences, it's all OK, everyone is understanding, patient and doesn't treat me like I am special. I don't think my life is any different from a person without stutter. On other thing. I might be wrong here, but I think it's important not to treat the child as someone special. Especially outside the family. I think that that's what made me stop being afraid to talk to strangers, make calls, etc. Teachers never treated me differently, they still asked me questions in class, made me read out loud, called me up to the blackboard. My parents did make the phone calls I had to make instead of me. I