Table 6. Youth with disabilities' feelings of competence, by disability category
| Competence | 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 reporting how much the following statements are "like you:" | ||||||||||||
| Tell peers how you feel when they upset you | ||||||||||||
| Very much like you | 58.1 | 48.0 | 45.7 | 56.7 | 47.7 | 65.8 | 52.2 | 51.4 | 34.4 | 60.3 | 50.7 | 48.9 |
| (4.22) | (4.45) | (5.85) | (4.62) | (6.14) | (6.00) | (5.75) | (4.74) | (7.00) | (8.81) | (7.45) | (9.12) | |
| A little like you | 32.6 | 39.4 | 32.0 | 23.0 | 42.1 | 25.9 | 36.6 | 35.8 | 46.6 | 32.5 | 31.0 | 38.6 |
| (4.01) | (4.35) | (5.47) | (3.92) | (6.07) | (5.54) | (5.54) | (4.54) | (7.35) | (8.43) | (6.90) | (8.88) | |
| Not at all like you | 9.3 | 12.5 | 22.3 | 20.4 | 10.2 | 8.3 | 11.2 | 12.8 | 19.0 | 7.1 | 18.3 | 12.5 |
| (2.48) | (2.95) | (4.89) | (3.76) | (3.72) | (3.49) | (3.63) | (3.17) | (5.78) | (4.62) | (5.77) | (6.03) | |
| Can get school staff and adults to listen to you | ||||||||||||
| Very much like you | 66.7 | 57.5 | 61.6 | 65.5 | 60.4 | 70.3 | 67.7 | 60.3 | 56.1 | 69.1 | 63.6 | 73.1 |
| (4.01) | (4.40) | (5.68) | (4.40) | (6.02) | (5.77) | (5.38) | (4.59) | (7.31) | (8.32) | (7.10) | (8.00) | |
| A little like you | 29.3 | 36.3 | 30.9 | 27.7 | 30.9 | 25.7 | 29.5 | 34.5 | 36.4 | 26.5 | 26.7 | 18.6 |
| (3.88) | (4.28) | (5.39) | (4.14) | (5.69) | (5.52) | (5.25) | (4.46) | (7.09) | (7.95) | (6.53) | (7.02) | |
| Not at all like you | 4.1 | 6.2 | 7.5 | 6.8 | 8.7 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 5.3 | 7.5 | 4.4 | 9.7 | 8.3 |
| (1.69) | (2.15) | (3.07) | (2.33) | (3.47) | (2.44) | (1.90) | (2.10) | (3.88) | (3.69) | (4.37) | (4.98) | |
| Know how to get information you need | ||||||||||||
| Very much like you | 63.5 | 61.6 | 57.4 | 74.3 | 63.6 | 77.4 | 60.0 | 61.2 | 63.2 | 66.6 | 60.7 | 66.7 |
| (4.09) | (4.33) | (5.76) | (4.05) | (5.91) | (5.32) | (5.63) | (4.58) | (7.11) | (8.49) | (7.34) | (8.51) | |
| A little like you | 33.4 | 33.6 | 32.9 | 22.5 | 33.3 | 21.6 | 36.3 | 34.8 | 32.2 | 27.5 | 31.1 | 33.3 |
| (4.01) | (4.20) | (5.48) | (3.87) | (5.79) | (5.23) | (5.52) | (4.48) | (6.89) | (8.04) | (6.96) | (8.51) | |
| Not at all like you | 3.1 | 4.8 | 9.7 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 5.9 | 8.1 | # |
| (1.47) | (1.90) | (3.45) | (1.61) | (2.13) | (1.27) | (2.17) | (1.84) | (3.09) | (4.24) | (4.10) | ||
| Tell professionals their opinions on services provided | ||||||||||||
| Often | 33.3 | 23.0 | 48.6 | 31.5 | 25.7 | 23.6 | 23.0 | 30.7 | 23.2 | 35.7 | 18.5 | ‡ |
| (9.83) | (9.85) | (16.42) | (10.22) | (8.90) | (8.03) | (7.92) | (8.14) | (9.41) | (15.28) | (9.45) | ||
| Sometimes | 33.0 | 45.2 | 29.0 | 33.3 | 47.7 | 50.6 | 47.9 | 38.9 | 34.8 | 33.2 | 54.6 | ‡ |
| (9.81) | (11.65) | (14.91) | (10.37) | (10.18) | (9.46) | (9.40) | (8.61) | (10.62) | (15.02) | (12.12) | ||
| Hardly ever | 33.7 | 31.9 | 22.4 | 35.1 | 26.6 | 25.9 | 29.1 | 30.4 | 42.1 | 31.1 | 26.8 | ‡ |
| (9.86) | (10.91) | (13.70) | (10.50) | (9.00) | (8.29) | (8.55) | (8.12) | (11.01) | (14.77) | (10.78) | ||
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‡ Responses for items with fewer than 30 respondents are not reported. # 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. | ||||||||||||
