What does your school do to support its teachers with disabilities? Mark Lyn is conducting research into the barriers disabled staff face and what best practice in schools might look like

This an article about my current research work with teachers with disabilities, but before I begin I would like to tell a story.

A good friend of mine who is also a stammerer, like myself, once told me this. At the time she worked at a well known adult education institution in London as a librarian, problems would arise when she worked at the issuing counter.

The problem was that the queue of people waiting to be served felt that they had to wait much longer than usual. Tempers would flare and the tut-tutting would get audibly and, if you can imagine, visually louder.

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