The article discusses the problem of the teacher's readiness for training disabled students of distance learning department at higher educational institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The results of a sociological survey the form of questionnaires and interviews with university teachers are presented in the aim of identifying their motivational, cognitive and methodological readiness to organize educational activities of students with limited mobility. Mostly positive attitude of teachers to disabled students of distance learning departments, positive motivation to improve their own professional qualifications, interest in obtaining the necessary knowledge on the organization of this category students distance learning were revealed. An analysis of the teachers' survey has revealed the presence of certain factors (teaching experience, the experience of teaching students with disabilities and etc.) that affect the formation of their personal attitude to distance learning for students with limited abilities. Along with this, the teachers' survey revealed a lack disabled people psychophysical development of the characteristics understanding, lack of the student perception knowledge with hearing and visual impairments, insufficient understanding of the students with impairments physiological characteristics and so on. The teachers experienced the greatest difficulties in determining the presentation form of the lecture material, monitoring and evaluating independent works of students with problems of hearing, vision and movement. Characteristics were the difficulties associated with the adaptation of educational materials for students with vision and hearing problems. The revealed difficulties in organizing distance learning for disabled students allowed the authors to offer some recommendations for the implementation of this process.

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