I know how you feel. It's because we know how this puzzling malady has influenced our lives. We love our children and want to prevent their pain. Stuttering has many causes, physical and emotional. It can even be genetic. We, stutterers, are hyper-aware of any speech anomaly. I'm a stutterer and when our 4-year-old daughter began to stutter years ago I thought it was a tragedy and made all kinds of bargains with god. I think she just outgrew it as an adult she is totally fluent and has no idea she ever stuttered although stuttering is on both sides of her genealogy. There is a world-renowned doctor who is himself a stutterer. He believes there is a physiological cause of stuttering and successfully uses medication to treat his patients. Check out: Dr. Gerald Maguire. MD. and don't assume your child will be a lifetime stutterer just because you are.