Up to 2 years after high school, about three-quarters of youth with disabilities still are living with their parents, a significant decline from 2 years earlier and a similar rate to that of the general population of youth (75 percent, Arnett 2000).
There has been a significant increase in the proportion of age-eligible youth who have driving privileges; two-thirds can drive, whereas fewer than half could do so 2 years earlier.
About 12 percent of out-of-school youth are living with a spouse or roommate outside of their parents' home in Wave 2; two-thirds of youth in this living arrangement are reported to have annual incomes of $5,000 or less.
About 1 in 10 out-of-school youth with disabilities participated in government benefit programs during high school, and participation has changed little during the first 2 postschool years.
Personal financial management tools are being used by more youth with disabilities; about one-third have personal checking accounts, and almost one in five have a credit card or charge account in their own name, significantly more youth than 2 years earlier.
Eight percent of out-of-school youth with disabilities are reported to have had or fathered a child by Wave 2, a rate of parenting similar to that for the general population (11 percent).
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