HISD Translation Services provides translation services in Spanish, to help district campuses and departments support students attending HISD schools and their families.

Please note that translation involves written communication and interpretation involves verbal communication.  

To meet translation and interpretation needs that exceed the district’s in-house capacity, HISD works with external translation and interpretation service providers who may be contacted directly by administration and departments to secure the necessary resources. 

• Translation Services - Spanish translations: translations@houstonisd.org
• ASL interpreters (interpretation for the Deaf and hard of hearing): aslrequests@houstonisd.org
• Special Education (Interpretation & translation for Special Needs Students (i.e. ARD meetings): 713-556-7025

Helpful information when requesting a translation: 

Please keep in mind that our office receives translation requests from multiple sources on an ongoing basis. Certain requests are urgent, while others are prioritized based on content and need and are placed in the job queue.  

• Documents provided should be final documents only. We do not translate drafts. Time constraints do not allow for ongoing revisions and/or multiple updates of a document that is being translated.
• Documents provided should be in Microsoft Word; other files may not be accepted or result in delays.
• When submitting a revised document that has previously been translated, please use the tracked changes feature. This is the only way to ensure that we will complete every change made to the document.
• Please note that we do not translate copyrighted materials unless the proper permissions have been obtained and provided to our office.
• We do not translate third-party documents.