Recovery from stuttering in preschool-age children: 9 year outcomes in a clinical population.

•Children’s self-report on recovery from stuttering should not replace traditional criteria (expert rating and parental report).•Children’s self-report needs to be added when considering the status of stuttering.•Future studies on recovery should add self-reports to improve the validity of the stuttering recovery rate estimates.•Clinicians are recommended to take into account children’s self-report on stuttering status.