About Tina Pereira
Tina Pereira, PhD was trained and accredited as a Registered Intermediary (RI) by the Ministry of Justice in 2007. Since then she has worked in several Crown, Magistrate and Youth courts with witnesses and victims, defendants and respondents, mainly in the Midlands, UK.
Tina’s area of specialism is Learning Disability (LD) (adults and children). She also works with typically developing children. LD can be associated with a number of factors e.g. Intellectual Disabilty, neuro-diversities such as Autism, Developmental Language Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). LD can often co-exist with Mental Health conditions.
Previously, Tina worked for many years as a specialist speech and language therapist in the UK and overseas previously, with a specific focus on LD.
Tina's expertise lies in the area of low technology communication aids, a tool that is especially beneficial with vulnerable people who find it particularly difficult to use spoken language alone to communicate their account. Tina is also highly experienced working with interpreters of South Asian languages. Working within this three-person interaction requires specialist skills.
Tina develops and delivers bespoke individual and/or group training and mentoring for criminal justice practitioners. She has delivered many training sessions on using communication aids and working with interpreters effectively. Tina has delivered training to several police forces, as well as intermediaries both in the UK and overseas.
She has presented at national and international conferences on communication difficulties, vulnerable individuals in the Justice System and communication aids.
Tina is a mentor for newly qualified intermediaries on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.
She was formerly a trainer on the Ministry of Justice training team for Registered Intermediaries.
Tina is a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the International Association of Forensic and Legal Linguists.
Tina is passionate about enabling vulnerable people access equal opportunities in life, including within the Justice System.
