Community Attitudes to People with Disability: Scoping Project
Denise Thompson, Karen R Fisher, Christiane Purcal, Chris Deeming and Pooja Sawrikar, Social Policy Research Centre, Disability Studies and Research Centre, University of New South Wales, February 2012 
 
This report investigates current research on community attitudes towards people with disability. It was an initial step towards building an evidence base on Australian community attitudes to people with disability, on the impact of these attitudes on outcomes for people with disability and on effective policies for improving community attitudes towards them.

The project had two parts:

· an investigation of research into community attitudes towards disability, comprising a literature review and a search of data sources for relevant indicators of community attitudes and their impact on outcomes for people with disability

· an investigation of policies, programs and initiatives for changing community attitudes, involving a literature review of the available research on effective policy options.

This final report combines the findings and draws together the implications for policies to improve community attitudes towards people with disability.

The full report is available  here - external link