Stuttering may develop in children at a young age. This is often either caused by genetics or children trying to use their speech without  their speech apparatus being fully developed in order to produce certain sounds, which may end up causing a stutter. A lot of children do grow out of a stutter, but on occasion they do not and then may require speech therapy to help overcome their difficulties. Once someone has a stutter at an older age there is no cure, though speech therapy and counselling can provide strategies to help minimize the severity of a sutter.