Interpreting & Translation Services

Translation and Interpretation – Which Do You Need?

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The Auburn School District Language Access Plan provides guidance for staff members to enhance partnerships with our families. Our goal is to ensure all families have meaningful access to information necessary to make educational decisions and ensure equitable participation in educational programs. It is crucial that the District seek to address language barriers and do so free of charge.

Each school needs to communicate with families in the language they understand including notifying families whose primary language of communication is not English or have limited proficiency in English.

We are required to provide families about school and district programs, services, activities, and updates in a language they can understand such as:

Registration and enrollment in school
Grades, academic standards, and graduation
School rules and student discipline
Attendance, absences, and withdrawal
Parent permission for activities or programs
School closures
Opportunities to access programs or services-including highly capable, advanced placement, and English language learner programs
Special education and services for students with disabilities

Accordion

LANGUAGE ACCESS PLAN:

LANGUAGE ACCESS DEFINITIONS:

LAP: A Language Access Plan is a document that spells out how an institution will provide services to non-English speakers or people with limited English proficiency.

LEP: LEP persons are individuals who are unable to communicate effectively in English either verbally, in writing, or both, because their primary language is not English and they have not developed fluency in the English language. A person with LEP may have difficulty in one or more of four domains of language: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Primary Language: the language that someone uses most frequently to communicate with.

Interpretation: The process of orally rendering communication from one language to another while retaining the same meaning.

Consecutive Interpretation: Interpreting messages back and forth after each person has spoken, so that one person speaks at a time.

Simultaneous Interpretation: Interpretation takes places at the same time as the speaker, slightly behind the speaker’s words. The speaker does not stop talking, and the interpreter does not stop talking.

Translation: The replacement of written text from one language (source language) into an equivalent written text in another language (target language).

Parent/Guardian Identification: A part of the annual registration process; The process that the Auburn School District identifies LEP families.