Resources

This article from Colorin Colorado explains the differences between bilingual staff and interpreters and sets forth guidelines for working with interpreters to provide language access in educational settings.

This website provides information related to mental health and mental health resources in Virginia.

This organization helps connect to professional translation and interpretation services.

This mobile device application connects users to free translation and interpretation services within 2 minutes. This video presents more information on this application and its services.

This organization provides free or low-cost translation services to non-profit organizations.

This article from Learning for Justice discusses how school districts in Washington state are making language access an integral part of their services.

This is an example language access plan from the University of Wisconsin that divides the information into categories, one for administrators and one for colleagues.

This guide provides guidance on what a language access plan is and the required steps for creating a language access plan.

This is an example of a language access plan. This plan was published by the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services.

This resource provides information related to the multilingual population in Virginia and examples of limited language access in Virginia, and information on current legislation to expand language access in Virginia.

This VDOE publication presents differentiation and support ideas broken down by potential learning disability to support ELLs with disabilities.

This VDOE publication presents instructional strategies that can be used to support rigorous learning for ELLs with disabilities.