Table 7. Personal autonomy and psychological empowerment 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: | ||||||||||||
| Personal autonomy | ||||||||||||
| High | 52.1 | 55.1 | 50.4 | 38.9 | 57.0 | 63.4 | 46.5 | 43.3 | 22.9 | 39.2 | 53.2 | 37.7 |
| (4.97) | (5.00) | (7.23) | (5.73) | (6.70) | (7.23) | (6.78) | (5.53) | (6.93) | (9.47) | (8.87) | (9.58) | |
| Medium | 45.9 | 43.2 | 47.2 | 58.4 | 41.7 | 35.9 | 51.7 | 56.1 | 72.1 | 58.2 | 46.8 | 59.9 |
| (4.96) | (4.98) | (7.22) | (5.79) | (6.67) | (7.21) | (6.79) | (5.54) | (7.40) | (9.57) | (8.87) | (9.69) | |
| Low | 2.0 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 5.1 | 2.6 | # | 2.5 |
| (1.39) | (1.31) | (2.20) | (1.91) | (1.57) | (1.24) | (1.81) | (0.88) | (3.61) | (3.09) | (3.06) | ||
| Psychological empowerment | ||||||||||||
| High | 84.4 | 82.8 | 72.2 | 85.3 | 79.6 | 87.1 | 82.9 | 79.6 | 64.2 | 83.4 | 66.8 | 75.8 |
| (3.64) | (3.81) | (6.48) | (4.17) | (5.48) | (5.06) | (5.14) | (4.55) | (8.09) | (6.97) | (8.46) | (8.81) | |
| Medium | 12.2 | 16.2 | 22.8 | 13.5 | 16.7 | 11.6 | 16.5 | 19.4 | 34.1 | 15.7 | 32.1 | 21.6 |
| (3.28) | (3.72) | (6.07) | (4.04) | (5.07) | (4.82) | (5.08) | (4.46) | 8.00 | (6.82) | (8.39) | (8.45) | |
| Low | 3.5 | 1.1 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.7 |
| (1.83) | (1.03) | (3.15) | (1.25) | (2.59) | (1.77) | (1.00) | (1.13) | (2.16) | (1.70) | (1.84) | (3.30) | |
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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), youth in-person interviews, 2002 and 2004. | ||||||||||||
