They also report that the learn that many students with disabilities use different learning and study techniques to assimilate the information. They discover that different people really do learn differently. One teacher said that when he taught blind students, his main accommodation was to keep his hands in his pocket so he could not point at the board and had to verbalize everything. Instead of point to 'this' and 'that', he read the material out loud. Non-disabled students at the back confessed that they had not always seen what he had been pointing at.
Accommodations sometimes are simple.
Teachers say that their having to learn to transcend special communication barriers to teach students with disabilities resulted in their improving their communication skills. Learning better communication skills, they report, made them better teachers.