In an interview with BBC Radio Wales, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson states that more still needs to be done to shift perceptions towards people with disabilities
Baroness Grey-Thompson, who is an ambassador for Disability Rights UK, says that although the London 2012 games changes views towards disabled athletes it was less successful in changing attitudes to disabled people as a whole.
She told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that:
Disability hate crime figures are the worse they've been in 10 years of reporting.
Disabled people are portrayed as either a Paralympian, a benefit scrounger, or a victim.
Disabled people are in a very difficult place, though that’s partly because they are more integrated into society than 20 years ago.
She also said that, despite the Equality Act
"We're still a long way from equality and the disability rights movement has struggled so when the Equality Act came in, I was really hopeful that actually for disabled people, it would mean a really big step forward.
"But it hasn't been and we're still kind of lost behind other minority groups."