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Subject: "Procedural Safeguards" in foreign
languages
Source: Margaret Strecker, Director, Compliance
Intended Audience: Administrators of Special Education
Date: September 29, 2006
The new "Procedural Safeguards" statement will be posted on our website
mid-October. Copies will also be provided to responsible public agencies in
the amount of your child count as soon as printing is accomplished. While
awaiting the printed copies, copies can be downloaded from the website.
We will be obtaining foreign language translations of the new document for
use by responsible public agencies as we have done in the past. Currently we
have translations of the languages listed below (see explanations
asterisked). If there are other translations for which you have a need,
please contact Wanda Allen, Legal Assistant, at (573) 751-0602 or
wanda.allen@dese.mo.gov.
Please remember that the requirement to provide the Procedural Safeguards in
a foreign language applies if the parent's native language is other than
English; native language is not necessarily the parent's language of choice
or the parent's first language. Rather, native language is defined in the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) as: "the language
normally used by the parents...." If the parent normally uses English, then
a foreign language translation of the document is not required.
Foreign language translations of July 2005 Procedural Safeguards:
Arabic*
Chinese
Croatian (Latin)*
Farsi* (a/k/a Iranian or Persian)
French
German
Hindi*
Khmer (Cambodian)
Korean
Romanian
Russian
Rwandan* (Kenya)
Serbo-Croatian*
Serbian (Cyrillic)*
Spanish
Swahili*
Vietnamese
Urdu*
* People in Rwanda speak Rwandan, some speak English, but the official
language of Rwanda is Swahili.
* Indian people may speak Urdu or Hindi.
* Farsi is spoken by Afghanistanians. It is also known as Iranian and
Persian.
* Bosnian people read Latin Croatian.
* Serbian people read Cyrillic Serbian.
* Croats read Latin Croatian. Serbians and Croats may also read the
Serbo-Croatian language, which is a combination of Serbian and Croatian.
* Kurdish communities exist in Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and the former Soviet
Union. Most Kurds in the USA come from Iraq and the official language of
Iraq is Arabic (although some Kurds elsewhere may use as a written language
Turkish-modified Roman alphabet script or Cyrillic script in addition to
Arabic script or may speak and write the official language of their home
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