Table 10. Youth's reported perceptions of school safety, by disability category
| School safety | 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 at school they feel: | ||||||||||||
| Very safe | 35.5 | 37.1 | 43.9 | 45.3 | 46.8 | 52.0 | 39.4 | 37.7 | 52.6 | 47.3 | 45.7 | 48.3 |
| (4.35) | (4.55) | (5.91) | (5.25) | (6.49) | (6.26) | (5.91) | (5.02) | (7.73) | (9.47) | (7.72) | (9.42) | |
| Pretty safe | 56.5 | 55.5 | 51.5 | 41.6 | 44.8 | 45.7 | 55.3 | 55.3 | 43.4 | 47.4 | 42.7 | 47.2 |
| (4.51) | (4.68) | (5.96) | (5.20) | (6.47) | (6.24) | (6.01) | (5.15) | (7.67) | (9.47) | (7.66) | (9.41) | |
| Not very or not at all safe | 7.9 | 7.4 | 4.6 | 13.1 | 8.4 | 2.3 | 5.3 | 7.1 | 4.0 | 5.2 | 11.6 | 4.5 |
| (2.45) | (2.46) | (2.50) | (3.56) | (3.61) | (1.88) | (2.71) | (2.66) | (3.03) | (4.21) | (4.96) | (3.91) | |
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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. | ||||||||||||
