Publications and Presentations
Aldridge & Pereira 2026. A Critical Evaluation of the Legal System in England and Wales for Sex Abuse Crimes Involving Adult Witnesses with an Intellectual Disability: Deliberations on Special Measures. In the Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Forensic Linguistics. ed I M Nick & Kirsty Blewitt
Pereira, T. 2025. Intermediaries & communication aids: Accommodations to increase participation in a forensic context. Oral presentation at European Conference for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Pereira, T (2025) Intermediaries in Family Courts: How and why does this matter? Seen and Heard journal: 1 pp 64-71
Pereira, T. (2024). Effective communication aid use: police interviews and in court. conference paper. Australia and New Zealand inaugural intermediary conference 2024. online, 18-06-24.
Pereira, T and Henry, L. 2024. Vulnerability and judicial directions: Judges observations on S28 and S29. Paper presented at Ministry of Justice RI conference, Birmingham.
Pereira, T. 2024. Establishing common ground using low tech communication aids in intermediary mediated police interviews of witnesses with an ID. International Journal for the semiotics of the Law 10.1007/s11196-023-10035-w
Pereira, T. 2023 & Aldridge, M. ‘Show me what happened’: Low technology communication aids used in intermediary mediated police investigative interviews with vulnerable witnesses with an intellectual disability. International Journal of Evidence and Proof. 27(1) 83-104
Pereira, T. (2022). Using communication aids with witnesses with a learning disability to facilitate equal access to the criminal justice system; in Language and the Law: Global Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics from Africa and beyond, Sun Press. South Africa
Working effectively with spoken language interpreters: Ministry of Justice conference for criminal justice practitioners 2022; online
Pereira, T (2021). Investigative interviewing witnesses with an Intellectual Disability: Low technology communication aids as devices to maintain functionality of open questions; International Investigative Interviewing Research Group online conference.
Pereira, T (2021). Using communication aids to improve quality of evidence: Eliciting investigation relevant complex concepts; conference paper, Ministry of Justice online conference.
Pereira, T (2019). Using objects in forensic interviews with witnesses with a learning disability; conference paper, International Association of Forensic Linguistics. Melbourne, Australia
Pereira, T (2018). Preparing witnesses with a Learning Disability for answering questions in an investigative interview; conference paper, Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. Cardiff.
Pereira, T (2017). Change in quality of evidence elicited with witnesses with a learning disability, conference paper International Association of Forensic Linguistics. Porto, Portugal
Pereira, T (2011). Interviewing children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, conference paper, International Investigative Interviewing Research Group. Dundee