Disabled people represent a significant, largely untapped source of potential new teachers.
This is perhaps the most important reason to recruit disabled teachers. Schools cannot afford to overlook the skills and enthusiasm of qualified disabled teachers. Another reason to employ disabled teachers is because children benefit from opportunities to learn from a variety of people, as they will have to do in their future lives. A realistic awareness of disability can be developed before prejudice has had time to set in. A third reason for employing disabled teachers is the positive effects this can bring for disabled pupils.