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You have to understand a speech therapist cannot just remove a stutter as there is no known cure. Hopefully she can feel comfortable enough that it doesn't feel severe and is just a minor bother here and there. If you brought her to a speech therapist I hope they know the new school of thought to let them be comfortable and figure it out for themselves because if they recommend things like elongation I think it will just replace one difficulty with another. I had to unlearn to fall into elongating everything (until I was blue in the face) and when I finally did I began understanding myself to the point where everything changed and it was just a blip on the radar now and then and I could carry on without carrying it with me so to speak. There is a lot that can be self taught and though you want to help her while she's young just remember speech therapists do not have a cure. As I said hopefully they allow her to comfortably be herself and it will allow her to move on on her own rather than feel pressured to force anything out. I cannot recommend speech therapists (it arguably made it worse for me even though at the time I thought it might be making it better) especially if it doesn't bother her at all. I don't see an upside to it but a potential downside where it does then start bothering her as she's more aware/worried about it even if they didn't intend for that. Since there's no actual cure, they try to help them cope and their methods unbeknownst to the parties can make it more lasting because stutterers tend to fall on their crutches and use them consistently when they may have been better off without them. My example was with elongation as I said. Just the thought/reminder that I could stutter on something brought it to the forefront so when I remembered I needed to elongate this or that, I would feel the need to always and consistently. When I was so tired of how drained I felt always having to elongate even if it took all my energy, I finally had enough. I realized half the time I could say it fine and the other half I'd give myself more time rather than lean in and elongate like I was told. Over time that which I felt an overwhelming need to elongate had pretty much disappeared as I retrained myself not to fall into that crutch. I know it sounds complicated and it is. I'm sorry. But if it wasn't there'd surely be a cure by now. Before rushing to judgement please look into it further because if it doesn't bother her then she may be better off not being influenced. ​ Edit: I started stuttering around 3 years old also by the way.