IEP, Parent Notice and School Document Translation in Pashto, Dari and 22 More Afghan Languages

Federal special education law does not require the IEP document itself to be translated, the U.S. Department of Education’s special education office said in 2016. It does require an interpreter at the IEP meeting, prior written notice and the procedural safeguards notice in the parent’s native language, and consent given in that language. States add their own rules: Texas requires a written or audio translation of the IEP, and Illinois guidance asks for it within seven school days of the meeting. Many districts translate the IEP because it is the clearest way to show the parent understood what they agreed to.

No. Afghan Dari and Iranian Persian (Farsi) share a script and grammar but differ in everyday school vocabulary — in Afghan Dari a school is maktab, while madrasa means a religious school. We translate into Afghan Dari and match the family’s dialect: Kabuli, Herati, Hazaragi, Badakhshi and other Dari dialects.

Certified written translation, page-for-page typesetting, accessible PDFs, bilingual and online forms, plain-language parent summaries, signs, audio recordings, oral translation with a signed record, phone and robocall messages, voice-note replies, video subtitles and voice-over, transcription, website and parent portal translation, text and app templates, QR audio links, machine translation post-editing, chatbot content, review of existing translations, back-translation, community review, district glossaries, training for bilingual staff and rush translation — in Pashto, Dari, 22 more Afghan languages and 13 world languages.

IDEA covers this case. When a parent does not read the notice’s language, the school must translate it orally, make sure the parent understands it, and keep written evidence (34 CFR 300.503(c)(2)). We record an audio version in the family’s variety or hold an interpreted reading with the parent, and give you a signed record for your file.

Not for rights and consent documents. In a published benchmark GPT-4 scored 6.13 translating English into Pashto and 56.80 into French, and Google’s developer translation service lists Persian but not Dari. We use machine translation only for everyday messages, edited by a linguist against your glossary, and never deliver raw machine output.

Notices and prior written notices up to five pages: one business day. Documents up to 20 pages: two business days on priority or five on standard, plus a day for each additional 10 pages. Final IEPs are returned within five school days of the meeting, and emergency and closure messages the same day.

A certified translation comes with a signed statement that it is complete and accurate, and can be notarized on request. No U.S. certification exam covers translation from English into Pashto or Dari, so every Ariana Nexus translation is done by a translator trained to our written standard, checked by a second linguist and certified with a signed statement. If a family or staff member questions a translation, we review it within two business days and re-certify at no charge.

Yes. Because no U.S. certification exists for translation into Pashto or Dari, we train to the Ariana Nexus standard: special education terminology, sight translation of notices, the difference between Afghan Dari and Iranian Persian, and when a document needs a certified translator. Staff leave with your district glossary.

We work as a school official under your direct control: records are used only for the translation, never redisclosed, encrypted in transfer and storage, open only to the named linguists on your file, and deleted on your schedule with a written destruction record.

Yes. We work under the Student Data Privacy Consortium’s National Data Privacy Agreement, New York Education Law §2-d terms, California Education Code §49073.1 contract terms, Illinois SOPPA agreements or your district’s own agreement.

Pashto and Dari, and 22 more: Aimaq, Balochi, Ormuri, Parachi, Wakhi, Shughni, Sanglechi, Ishkashimi, Munji, Yidgha, Uzbeki, Turkmeni, Kyrgyz, Pashayi, Gawarbati, Tirahi, Ashkun, Kati, Prasun, Waigali, Tregami and Brahui. For languages spoken more than they are read, we provide recorded and oral translation. We also translate to and from 13 world languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Hebrew and Chinese.

Yes. We translate the Se-Parcha transcript, the Shahadatnama graduation certificate, report cards, Kankor results, transfer letters, vaccination cards and the tazkira into English, convert Solar Hijri dates, and add a short note on the Afghan grade and grading system. It is a certified translation, not a credential evaluation.

Yes. Many Afghan children studied in Pakistan, Iran or Türkiye before arriving. We translate those records from Urdu, Persian and Turkish into English with the same signed certificate and a note on the grading system.

Yes — in Canada, the United Kingdom, across Europe and in Australia, depending on the type and scale of the project. We translate EHC plans, Förderpläne, åtgärdsprogram, PPS and IEPs, work in Swedish, German, French and other school languages, and work under GDPR and UK GDPR where they apply.

Yes. Our Pashto and Dari school interpreters work from the same translated document, so the family hears the terms they will later read. This page covers written, audio and digital translation; the meeting itself is covered by our school interpreting service.

Many Afghan children and parents lived through the Afghan war, the 2021 evacuation and displacement, and some parents carry moral injury, often searched as Afghan moral trauma. Psychoeducational evaluations and counseling documents are reviewed by Diana Ayubi, Psy.D., for accurate clinical terms and trauma-informed wording before they are certified.

No. Executive Order 14224 revoked Executive Order 13166 but did not require any change in language services, and the Department of Justice stated that recipients must still comply with Title VI. The native-language requirements in IDEA, ESSA and FERPA are written into statute and regulation, and they are unchanged.

By document type or as a school-year program, after we see your document inventory. Rights and consent documents always include second-linguist review and a signed certificate; audio and oral translation are quoted separately.