Table 12. Youth's reported enjoyment of school, by disability category
| Enjoyment of 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 enjoy school: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 25.3 | 27.0 | 52.3 | 22.8 | 29.3 | 37.2 | 34.0 | 20.9 | 31.4 | 25.7 | 50.4 | 43.4 |
| (3.93) | (4.17) | (5.94) | (4.38) | (5.89) | (6.03) | (5.72) | (4.18) | (7.11) | (8.09) | (7.75) | (9.34) | |
| Pretty much | 43.2 | 46.0 | 21.4 | 29.5 | 37.6 | 38.5 | 42.6 | 41.0 | 40.2 | 42.2 | 21.9 | 40.8 |
| (4.48) | (4.68) | (4.88) | (4.77) | (6.27) | (6.07) | (5.98) | (5.06) | (7.51) | (9.15) | (6.41) | (9.27) | |
| A little | 19.5 | 20.0 | 19.5 | 31.0 | 23.6 | 16.9 | 16.6 | 26.5 | 20.7 | 28.5 | 18.6 | 11.3 |
| (3.58) | (3.75) | (4.71) | (4.83) | (5.50) | (4.67) | (4.50) | (4.54) | (6.20) | (8.36) | (6.03) | (5.97) | |
| Not at all | 12.0 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 16.6 | 9.5 | 7.4 | 6.9 | 11.7 | 7.7 | 3.5 | 9.2 | 4.5 |
| (2.94) | (2.39) | (2.99) | (3.89) | (3.80) | (3.26) | (3.06) | (3.30) | (4.08) | (3.40) | (4.48) | (3.91) | |
| 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. | ||||||||||||
