I don't have any answers for you because, as far as I can tell, nobody has any answers. I will say that I, and I think many many others, had years of therapy. In my case it started when I was 7 or 8, and continued through elementary school. My dad sent me to a couple intensive therapy camps as a teenager. As far as I can tell none of them fixed anything, so I wouldn't worry too much that your financial means are holding your son back. What was useful for me at those intensive camps was meeting adults who were life-long stutterers and were all successful in life at their chosen occupations. One was a lawyer who, in spite of stuttering, still argued cases in open court. Another owned a landscaping company with about a dozen employees. Another was a teacher. The common thread was that they were all successful despite their stutter. It can be done. Heck, a stutterer is now the president of the US. Now that I'm middle-aged I've talked with a couple younger people who stuttered and, I hope, helped them understand that stuttering does not define their worth. The most important thing my parents ever did for me was to be supportive, and I'm thrilled that you're doing the same for your son. Stuttering as a teenager absolutely sucks. You're already dealing with the usual teenage insecurities, and the inability to communicate successfully make it so much worse. And it's true that kids are cruel to stutterers. My only words of advice are that the best way to overcome stuttering (not literally) is to be comfortable with who you are, so that stuttering doesn't define you.