Intermediaries across the Justice Continuum: From Police Investigative Interviews to Jury Trials.
Rukiya Stein has been practising as an Accredited Witness Intermediary in New South Wales since April 2016. She is also an independent communication Intermediary working with children, young people and adults with both identified and unidentified communication needs. In addition to working as an Intermediary, she runs her own part- time Telehealth Speech and Language Pathology practice, she is a Clinical Educator at Australian Catholic University and she will be commencing her PhD at the University of Newcastle Law School in February 2022.
Rukiya has extensive experience working with children, young people and adults with a range of communication, language and learning needs and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds. Being from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse background herself, she is especially passionate about the communication needs of individuals from CALD backgrounds who come into contact with the justice system. She has worked directly with Autism, Intellectual Disabilities, Down’s Syndrome, specific language impairments, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Selective/Elective Mutism, and other language and communication needs.
She strongly believes that everyone should have equal access to justice and their communication or lack of it should not be a barrier to them being able to participate fully in the justice system.
This one hour session was originally presented as part of the MyKludo Virtual Investigations Conference held 6-8 December 2021.
