The book encourages disabled people to enter the teaching profession. This shortage can at least partially be overcome by tapping the resource of disabled people', explains Skill's Director, Barbara Waters.
Disabled people are vastly underrepresented in the teaching profession.
Some of this discrepancy may be caused by the assumption that disabled people cannot teach because they cannot fulfil the medical and other requirements of the profession. However, with adjustments few disabled people are unable to fulfil these requirements. I have a visual impairment', she explains in Into Teaching , 'which means that I am severely short-sighted and my peripheral vision is very limited. Most problems in the classroom can be overcome'. Positive role models, such as Alison, show disabled people and teacher trainers that disabled people can work as teachers.