Trainee teachers with disabilities on the rise
The number of people with disabilities training to become teachers has increased for the fifth year running, according to new research by Durham University. Survey results also show an increasing diversity in the types of people entering the teaching profession.
Application rates into Initial Teacher Training (IIT) schemes by disabled teaching trainees has doubled in six years. Outside of ‘unseen disabilities’, the greatest number of people entering teacher training are dyslexic, followed by people with hearing or visual impairments. The majority of those surveyed said that they did not see their disability as a barrier to becoming a teacher when they first considered joining the profession.
The research has been announced just as the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) has launched Able to Teach, which offers guidance for providers of IIT on disability discrimination and fitness to teach as part of their campaign to recruit more people with disabilities into teaching.
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