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Table 4. Self-realization scores of youth, by disability category
| Score level | Learning disability | Speech/ language impair- ment |
Mental retar- dation |
Emo- tional distur- bance |
Hearing impair- ment |
Visual impair- ment |
Ortho- pedic impair- ment |
Other health impair- ment |
Autism | Trau- matic brain injury |
Multiple disabili- ties |
Deaf- blind- ness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent / standard error | ||||||||||||
| Percentage of youth with scores: | ||||||||||||
| Self-realization | ||||||||||||
| High | 67.2 | 54.1 | 51.0 | 61.2 | 58.9 | 64.9 | 44.4 | 44.3 | 51.6 | 53.8 | 60.8 | 64.5 |
| (4.70) | (5.01) | (7.25) | (5.73) | (6.67) | (7.19) | (6.79) | (5.55) | (8.24) | (9.67) | (8.74) | (9.59) | |
| Medium | 30.9 | 44.8 | 47.2 | 36.9 | 41.1 | 35.1 | 55.0 | 54.4 | 44.0 | 45.0 | 35.6 | 33.0 |
| (4.62) | (5.00) | (7.24) | (5.67) | (6.67) | (7.19) | (6.80) | (5.56) | (8.18) | (9.65) | (8.56) | (9.42) | |
| Low | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.9 | # | # | 0.6 | 1.3 | 4.4 | 1.2 | 3.7 | 2.5 |
| (1.36) | (1.04) | (1.90) | (1.60) | (1.02) | (1.25) | (3.39) | (2.11) | (3.37) | (3.14) | |||
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# Rounds to zero. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research, National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), Wave 2 youth telephone interview/mail survey, 2003. | ||||||||||||