SUNITA SHAH
Chair
Sunita Shah Graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1999.  Since then she has worked with adults and children.  She has worked in Sandwell NHS Trust, East Cheshire NHS and currently works as a Clinical Lead for the under fives team, and Bilingual Specialist for Brent Teaching Primary Care Trust. 

TLC- “Together lets communicate” is the name of Sunita’s private practice in which she sees children and families in North West London.  Sunita is going to start teaching at Essex University on Bilingualism.

In Brent there are over 50 different languages spoken from a range of religious and cultural backgrounds.  As there is not one strong ethnic group in Brent this has given Sunita direction to develop resources and advice for multiple languages. 

Sunita is involved with training and developing bilingualism in the following areas, Bilingual theories and language development, using interpreters, assessment, and intervention. 

As Chair of the London Bilingual SIG Sunita and the committee hold annual study days, centred on Speech and Language Therapy and Bilingual issues.  Sunita is very proud of the commitment and support of the members of the SIG committee in developing this website.  She is also a committee member of the National SIG. 

Sunita is multi-lingual, and able to speak Gujarati fluently and is semi-fluent in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi. 

TANVI SHAH
Treasurer
Tanvi Shah is a multilingual Speech and Language Therapist. She graduated from Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh with a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Pathology and Therapy. Since qualifying she has worked in a variety of settings with children, e.g. Community Clinics, Nurseries, Mainstream Schools, Special Schools and Sure Start Children’s Centres. Tanvi is a Specialist in Bilingualism and she is a committee member of both the London and National Specific Interest Groups for Bilingualism. Being multilingual,

Tanvi has been able to use her language skills during therapy - fluency in written and oral Gujarati, basic knowledge in Swahili, French and German, Signalong Phase 1 and Makaton Level 1. She has also taken the opportunity to attend multilingual and multicultural conferences in other countries, set up by Comité Permanent de Liaison des Orthophonistes / Logopedes de l'Union Européenne. (CPLOL - is the Standing Liaison Committee of Speech and Language Therapists / Logopedists in the European Union).

Tanvi also regularly attends the Communication Therapy International Specific Interest Group study days to keep up to date with colleagues doing voluntary work in other countries. Tanvi has done voluntary work and training in Kenya and would like to continue to give something back to her home country. Tanvi is excited about the website and is keen to share her knowledge on Bilingualism.  

AMITA RAVAL
Honarary Member

AMI MEHTA
Secretary

Acknowledgements
Ed Hooke
Cathy Watson
Francesca Buxton
Previous SIG Members
National Sig Bilingualism
Jane Stokes
Reeta Thakraria
Seema Garg

Thank you for all your hard work and input.