Articles, Reports, Papers and Presentations
Authored by Talking Trouble
Articles
What could improve communication in justice settings? Things we’ve learned through working alongside and listening to participants in the justice system and their whānau.
Media interview
Sally Kedge appears on the ABC’s radio programme, the Law Report regarding how speech pathologists unpack legal jargon.
Presentations
Sally Kedge - Enabling communication rights in high stakes contexts with children, youth and adults – IALP World Congress of the International Association of Communication Science and Disorders
Papers
Kedge, S. (2018). “When they say it fast and I don’t understand and then I just... goes blank and then boom”: Helping legal contexts make sense to complainants and defendants in New Zealand. Intellectual Disability Australasia, 39(4), 11–15.
Kedge, S., & McKee, A. (2018, September 17). Speech-language therapists: Human rights enablers[Paper presentation]. NZSTA Symposium.
Oral Language and Communication Factors to Consider When Supporting People with FASD Involved with the Legal System. Chapter in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adults: Ethical and Legal Perspectives Volume 63 of the series International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine pp 139-147
Kearns, A., Clarke, D., Cusack, A., Gallagher, A., Humphreys, J., Kedge, S., & McKee, A. (2023). Intermediaries in the justice system for people with communication disability: Enacting Sustainable Development Goal 16 in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and New Zealand. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(1), 141-146. DOI
Report
Youth Voices about Youth Justice — Talking Trouble Listening to young people’s experiences of communication within the youth justice sector in New Zealand. This link includes the report, animations and set of challenge cards.
Authors from across Aotearoa
Papers
Howard, K., McCann, C., & Dudley, M. (2019). ‘It’s really good, much needed, why hasn’t it happened earlier?’ Professionals’ perspectives on the benefits of communication assistance in the New Zealand youth justice system. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Advance online publication.
Howard, K., McCann, C., & Dudley, M. (2019). ‘I was flying blind a wee bit’: Professionals’ perspectives on challenges facing communication assistance in the New Zealand youth justice system. The International Journal of Evidence & Proof. Advance online publication.
Howard, K., McCann, C., Ewing, A., Dudley, M., & Brookbanks, W. (2019). Two legal concepts collide: the intersection of unfitness to stand trial and communication assistance.
New Zealand Universities Law Review. Howard, K., McCann, C., & Dudley, M. (2020). What is communication assistance? Describing a new and emerging profession in the New Zealand youth justice system.
Howard, K., McCann, C., & Dudley, M. (2019). 'It was like more easier': Rangatahi (young people) and their whānau (family) talk about communication assistance in the New Zealand youth justice system.
Professor Ian Lambie, Chief Science Advisor for the Justice sector, has produced a series of four reports related to criminal justice. Four reports relating to justice from Professor Ian Lambie
Henderson, E. (2015). ‘A very valuable tool’: Judges, advocates and intermediaries discuss the intermediary system in England and Wales. The International Journal of Evidence and Proof. Vol 19(3), 154-171.
Report
Professor Ian Lambie (2020). What were they thinking? A discussion paper on brain and behaviour in relation to the justice system in New Zealand.
International authors
Associate Professor Pamela Snow - Australia
One of the leading international researchers in the area of language difficulties and young offending
Article: Young offenders need a verbal toolkit to unlock literacy
Paper: Snow, P.C. & Powell, M.B. (2011). Youth (In)justice: Oral language competence in early life and risk for engagement in antisocial behaviour in adolescence. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 435.
Paper: Speech-Language Pathology and the Youth Offender: Epidemiological Overview and Roadmap for Future Speech-Language Pathology Research and Scope of Practice in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools Volume 50, Issue 2.
Blog: Pamela also writes a regular blog: The Snow Report.
Her posts on restorative justice conferencing can be found at http://pamelasnow.blogspot.co.nz/2014_04_01_archive.html
Language competence and vulnerable young people are particularly relevant http://pamelasnow.blogspot.co.nz/2014/02/language-competence-and-vulnerable.html
Article
Speaking Up For Justice, Karin Derkley, in the Law Institute Victoria - Journal, October 2019, page 17-18.
Papers
Hepner, I., Woodward, M., & Stewart, J. (2015) ‘Giving the Vulnerable a Voice in the Criminal Justice System: The Use of Intermediaries with individuals with Intellectual Disability’, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 22:3, pp453-464. For the early online edition (November 2014).
Woodward, M., Hepner, I., & Stewart, J. (2014) ‘Out of the Mouth of Babes: Enabling children to give evidence in the justice system’, Alternative Law Journal, 39:1, pp27-30