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Table 11. Youth's reported affiliation with school, by disability category
| Affiliation with school | 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 they feel part of school: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 29.8 | 29.8 | 37.9 | 29.1 | 36.3 | 48.2 | 37.7 | 23.2 | 25.1 | 24.7 | 36.8 | 36.5 |
| (4.15) | (4.29) | (5.80) | (4.76) | (6.22) | (6.23) | (5.86) | (4.34) | (6.66) | (8.02) | (7.43) | (9.08) | |
| Pretty much | 38.1 | 43.4 | 25.5 | 26.7 | 30.4 | 28.7 | 28.8 | 36.0 | 35.5 | 49.9 | 28.4 | 36.5 |
| (4.40) | (4.65) | (5.21) | (4.64) | (5.95) | (5.64) | (5.47) | (4.94) | (7.35) | (9.30) | (6.95) | (9.08) | |
| A little | 22.6 | 20.6 | 27.8 | 29.3 | 31.1 | 16.9 | 25.0 | 27.9 | 28.1 | 20.3 | 26.0 | 24.7 |
| (3.79) | (3.79) | (5.35) | (4.77) | (5.99) | (4.67) | (5.23) | (4.61) | (6.91) | (7.48) | (6.76) | (8.13) | |
| Not at all | 9.6 | 6.2 | 8.9 | 14.8 | 2.3 | 6.2 | 8.6 | 12.9 | 11.4 | 5.1 | 8.9 | 2.2 |
| (2.67) | (2.26) | (3.40) | (3.72) | (1.94) | (3.01) | (3.39) | (3.45) | (4.88) | (4.09) | (4.39) | (2.77) | |
| Percentage participating in organized extracurricular group activities at school | 45.8 | 47.0 | 29.7 | 32.2 | 61.8 | 65.0 | 44.1 | 41.8 | 34.0 | 39.7 | 51.0 | 58.2 |
| (4.53) | (4.70) | (5.48) | (4.93) | (6.31) | (5.98) | (6.02) | (5.11) | (7.31) | (9.15) | (7.73) | (9.42) | |
| Percentage reporting participating at school: | ||||||||||||
| Every time they have the chance | 19.7 | 18.8 | 22.2 | 13.2 | 29.1 | 27.8 | 15.0 | 16.4 | 15.9 | 16.5 | 33.8 | 25.4 |
| (3.96) | (3.93) | (5.93) | (3.96) | (6.14) | (6.76) | (4.86) | (4.13) | (6.03) | (7.20) | (8.41) | (8.61) | |
| Most of the time when they have the chance | 24.0 | 23.0 | 19.8 | 18.7 | 28.2 | 29.6 | 21.6 | 16.6 | 9.5 | 13.3 | 28.7 | 24.5 |
| (4.25) | (4.23) | (5.69) | (4.57) | (6.08) | (6.89) | (5.59) | (4.16) | (4.84) | (6.58) | (8.04) | (8.51) | |
| Sometimes when they have the chance | 28.8 | 30.6 | 21.1 | 26.2 | 30.3 | 19.6 | 36.1 | 41.1 | 28.8 | 42.7 | 9.0 | 35.0 |
| (4.51) | (4.64) | (5.82) | (5.15) | (6.21) | (5.99) | (6.53) | (5.49) | (7.47) | (9.59) | (5.08) | (9.43) | |
| Not even when they have the chance | 27.6 | 27.6 | 36.9 | 42.0 | 12.5 | 23.0 | 27.3 | 25.9 | 45.7 | 27.5 | 28.6 | 15.1 |
| (4.44) | (4.50) | (6.88) | (5.78) | (4.47) | (6.35) | (6.06) | (4.89) | (8.21) | (8.66) | (8.03) | (7.07) | |
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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. | ||||||||||||