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Sarita Koushik is an international student from Canada. She recently completed her doctoral studies in Speech Pathology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has been specializing in stuttering treatment and research for the past 11 years with focus on early stuttering. Her particular area of interest is treatment of early stuttering with an approach called the Lidcombe Program. Sarita is recently married and living in Newcastle with her husband and newly born first child. Her future plans are to continue her research in stuttering in the preschool and school age population.

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