While there are many treatments for stuttering, there is little consensus among experts about which ones to use.
Treatments vary from country to country and vary even within countries.
Some experts think it preferable to treat stuttering as soon as it begins, while others suggest that parents wait for a year or so to see whether the stuttering goes away naturally. There is also little agreement about what type of treatments to use with young children who have started to stutter. There is also little consensus about what treatments to use for older children and adults who stutter. Most experts do agree, however, that once stuttering is chronic, one goal of treatment is to help people control their stuttering and so make it less handicapping. One approach is for the person to find ways of making their stuttering less severe and so more acceptable in communicative situations.