Table 9. Youth's perceptions of interpersonal challenges at school, by disability category
| Interpersonal challenges | 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 having trouble: | ||||||||||||
| Getting along with teachers | ||||||||||||
| Never | 44.6 | 41.6 | 41.8 | 30.4 | 47.1 | 42.1 | 59.1 | 43.4 | 50.4 | 52.5 | 45.3 | 54.5 |
| (4.51) | (4.63) | (5.87) | (4.83) | (6.51) | (6.20) | (5.93) | (5.10) | (7.77) | (9.25) | (7.67) | (9.39) | |
| Just a few times | 36.9 | 39.0 | 31.0 | 44.1 | 32.0 | 46.2 | 28.9 | 34.1 | 25.0 | 27.8 | 29.6 | 29.5 |
| (4.38) | (4.58) | (5.50) | (5.22) | (6.08) | (6.26) | (5.47) | (4.87) | (6.73) | (8.30) | (7.04) | (8.60) | |
| At least weekly but not daily | 14.2 | 12.2 | 14.9 | 16.1 | 10.1 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 17.3 | 19.5 | 15.3 | 13.8 | 13.6 |
| (3.39) | (3.05) | (4.35) | (3.99) | (4.03) | (3.40) | (2.79) | (4.22) | (6.04) | (7.36) | (5.12) | (7.41) | |
| Daily | 4.4 | 7.3 | 12.3 | 9.3 | 10.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 11.4 | 2.4 |
| (1.86) | (2.44) | (3.91) | (3.05) | (4.04) | (2.57) | (2.65) | (2.28) | (3.45) | (3.80) | (4.90) | (2.89) | |
| Getting along with other students | ||||||||||||
| Never | 40.4 | 43.2 | 38.8 | 29.0 | 46.9 | 56.0 | 53.9 | 40.6 | 29.8 | 49.1 | 43.2 | 36.2 |
| (4.47) | (4.68) | (5.84) | (4.76) | (6.49) | (6.23) | (6.09) | (5.08) | (7.02) | (9.41) | (7.71) | (9.06) | |
| Just a few times | 38.6 | 35.6 | 31.2 | 36.2 | 19.7 | 26.2 | 27.0 | 34.9 | 37.8 | 28.5 | 22.9 | 34.1 |
| (4.44) | (4.53) | (5.55) | (5.05) | (5.17) | (5.52) | (5.42) | (4.93) | (7.44) | (8.49) | (6.54) | (8.94) | |
| At least weekly but not daily | 12.6 | 12.7 | 13.6 | 19.6 | 20.5 | 12.7 | 11.6 | 15.2 | 19.5 | 14.1 | 10.8 | 22.8 |
| (2.99) | (3.05) | (4.28) | (4.04) | (5.26) | (4.12) | (3.66) | (3.89) | (6.14) | (6.78) | (4.89) | (7.89) | |
| Daily | 8.4 | 8.6 | 16.4 | 15.2 | 12.9 | 5.1 | 7.4 | 9.3 | 12.9 | 8.3 | 23.1 | 6.9 |
| (2.53) | (2.65) | (4.44) | (3.77) | (4.36) | (2.76) | (3.20) | (3.00) | (5.14) | (5.19) | (6.56) | (4.78) | |
| Agreement that "there is an adult at school who you feel close to and who cares about you" | ||||||||||||
| Agree a lot | 54.6 | 48.2 | 12.3 | 57.4 | 60.5 | 63.5 | 65.5 | 58.1 | 58.2 | 49.7 | 66.6 | 66.2 |
| (4.54) | (4.75) | (3.94) | (5.20) | (6.37) | (6.03) | (5.66) | (5.10) | (7.63) | (9.36) | (7.32) | (8.92) | |
| Agree a little | 30.4 | 30.2 | 71.9 | 26.8 | 25.5 | 23.8 | 26.5 | 29.2 | 29.1 | 36.3 | 19.0 | 29.3 |
| (4.19) | (4.37) | (5.40) | (4.66) | (5.68) | (5.33) | (5.25) | (4.70) | (7.02) | (9.01) | (6.08) | (8.58) | |
| Disagree a little | 11.0 | 12.7 | 15.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 5.1 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 4.5 |
| (2.85) | (3.17) | (4.33) | (2.93) | (3.43) | (3.34) | (2.62) | (2.81) | (4.31) | (5.44) | (4.23) | (3.91) | |
| Disagree a lot | 3.9 | 8.9 | 0.4 | 7.4 | 6.6 | 5.0 | 2.9 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 6.3 | # |
| (1.76) | (2.71) | (0.76) | (2.75) | (3.24) | (2.73) | (2.00) | (2.19) | (3.14) | (3.96) | (3.77) | ||
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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. | ||||||||||||
