Table 13. Youth's reported perceptions of being cared about by parents and paid attention to by their families
| Care and attention | 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 | ||||||||||||
| Youth feel cared about by parents | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 84.8 | 88.7 | 81.3 | 79.6 | 85.6 | 85.9 | 91.2 | 80.7 | 75.5 | 85.8 | 87.3 | 81.4 |
| (3.06) | (2.82) | (4.54) | (3.74) | (4.31) | (4.38) | (3.25) | (3.70) | (6.38) | (6.29) | (4.95) | (7.02) | |
| Quite a bit | 10.7 | 7.9 | 4.8 | 12.0 | 11.2 | 9.7 | 7.1 | 13.5 | 14.8 | 8.6 | 10.8 | 12.4 |
| (2.63) | (2.40) | (2.49) | (3.01) | (3.87) | (3.73) | (2.95) | (3.20) | (5.27) | (5.05) | (4.62) | (5.95) | |
| Some | 1.8 | 1.9 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 2.0 |
| (1.14) | (1.22) | (2.72) | (1.88) | (2.12) | (1.91) | (1.33) | (2.04) | (3.54) | (3.79) | (1.84) | (2.55) | |
| Very little or not at all | 2.7 | 1.5 | 8.1 | 4.0 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 4.2 |
| (1.37) | (1.09) | (3.18) | (1.82) | (0.46) | (1.77) | (0.72) | (0.80) | (2.78) | (1.78) | (0.90) | (3.63) | |
| Youth feel paid attention to by family | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 60.4 | 55.8 | 64.9 | 49.6 | 58.6 | 55.7 | 63.8 | 50.9 | 51.9 | 60.6 | 72.4 | 56.3 |
| (4.17) | (4.42) | (5.53) | (4.62) | (6.06) | (6.27) | (5.52) | (4.68) | (7.45) | (8.83) | (6.63) | (8.95) | |
| Quite a bit | 22.0 | 30.2 | 15.2 | 27.2 | 29.3 | 30.1 | 22.3 | 30.6 | 23.2 | 17.6 | 15.3 | 24.7 |
| (3.53) | (4.08) | (4.16) | (4.11) | (5.60) | (5.79) | (4.79) | (4.31) | (6.29) | (6.89) | (5.34) | (7.79) | |
| Some | 11.7 | 9.8 | 9.3 | 13.3 | 7.4 | 9.2 | 12.4 | 12.1 | 15.1 | 14.6 | 6.4 | 10.6 |
| (2.74) | (2.64) | (3.36) | (3.14) | (3.22) | (3.65) | (3.79) | (3.05) | (5.34) | (6.38) | (3.62) | (5.56) | |
| Very little or not at all | 5.8 | 4.2 | 10.7 | 9.9 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 1.4 | 6.4 | 9.7 | 7.2 | 5.9 | 8.3 |
| (2.00) | (1.78) | (3.58) | (2.76) | (2.61) | (2.75) | (1.36) | (2.29) | (4.42) | (4.67) | (3.50) | (4.98) | |
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NOTE: Response categories "very little" and "not at all" have been collapsed for reporting purposes. 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. | ||||||||||||
