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Dear all list readers, I am a phd candidate at the School of Development Studies, Univ. of East Anglia. My resaerch question is "to what extent disability perspectives (or disabled people) are excluded from a mainstream of development? how? and why?" As one of the resaerch tools, I am thinking to use the "interaction with disabled persons (IDP) scale" which was developed by Lindsay Gething, Univeristy of Sydney, . (This is briefly introduced in French, Sally(1996), 'The Attitudes of Health Professionals Towards Disabled People', Gerald Hales (eds.), Beyond Disability: Towards an Enabling Society, London, Sage Publication.) Its manual includes back ground studies and several studies validated IDP as a tool to measure attitudes toward disability/disabled people at two levels: societal and personal level. (e.g. Gething, L.., et. Al., (1997), "An International Validation of the Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale", International Journal of Rehabilitation Resaerch, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 149-58.) However, I could not find any study or critique from disability studies (or disalbed persons') perspective to this IDP scale. (or IDP is just ignored in disability studies?) Since this is a tool to measure "attitude", hence may not fit into the social "construction" theory of disability. I would appreciate if someone would give me some comments on IDP scale or suggest any articles. Thank you very much in advance. Kenji KUNO %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%