Table 15. Reported extent of youth's reliance on family and friends, by disability category
| Reliance for support | 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 rely on parents: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 59.9 | 62.6 | 75.6 | 62.0 | 57.8 | 68.5 | 73.8 | 59.1 | 68.9 | 61.7 | 82.1 | 68.1 |
| (4.19) | (4.32) | (4.99) | (4.53) | (6.06) | (5.87) | (5.05) | (4.62) | (6.89) | (8.78) | (5.67) | (8.50) | |
| A fair amount | 22.9 | 22.8 | 7.3 | 19.4 | 21.2 | 18.9 | 13.3 | 23.0 | 13.4 | 14.4 | 9.2 | 17.1 |
| (3.59) | (3.75) | (3.02) | (3.69) | (5.02) | (4.95) | (3.90) | (3.96) | (5.07) | (6.34) | (4.27) | (6.87) | |
| Just some | 9.7 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 8.5 | 6.8 | 6.6 | 9.0 | 6.4 | 12.7 | 15.9 | 3.4 | 10.7 |
| (2.53) | (2.25) | (3.12) | (2.60) | (3.09) | (3.14) | (3.29) | (2.30) | (4.96) | (6.61) | (2.68) | (5.64) | |
| Not too much | 7.5 | 7.8 | 9.3 | 10.1 | 14.2 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 11.4 | 5.0 | 8.0 | 5.3 | 4.2 |
| (2.25) | (2.39) | (3.38) | (2.81) | (4.28) | (3.00) | (2.25) | (2.99) | (3.25) | (4.90) | (3.31) | (3.66) | |
| Youth rely on friends: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 41.2 | 46.5 | 32.1 | 37.9 | 31.6 | 47.7 | 43.1 | 38.7 | 22.6 | 52.7 | 35.6 | 21.4 |
| (4.22) | (4.49) | (5.44) | (4.53) | (5.71) | (6.29) | (5.75) | (4.57) | (6.30) | (9.02) | (7.10) | (7.48) | |
| A fair amount | 28.5 | 22.1 | 12.2 | 19.8 | 28.0 | 25.4 | 15.7 | 19.7 | 12.7 | 21.5 | 19.1 | 36.3 |
| (3.87) | (3.73) | (3.81) | (3.72) | (5.51) | (5.48) | (4.22) | (3.73) | (5.02) | (7.42) | (5.83) | (8.77) | |
| Just some | 12.5 | 13.8 | 22.8 | 17.1 | 18.5 | 10.5 | 21.8 | 19.6 | 32.0 | 12.0 | 15.0 | 23.2 |
| (2.84) | (3.10) | (4.88) | (3.52) | (4.77) | (3.86) | (4.79) | (3.72) | (7.03) | (5.87) | (5.30) | (7.70) | |
| Not too much | 17.9 | 17.6 | 32.9 | 25.1 | 21.8 | 16.4 | 19.4 | 22.0 | 32.7 | 13.9 | 30.2 | 19.2 |
| (3.29) | (3.43) | (5.47) | (4.05) | (5.07) | (4.66) | (4.59) | (3.89) | (7.07) | (6.25) | (6.81) | (7.19) | |
| Youth rely on siblings: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 36.9 | 35.4 | 45.6 | 42.9 | 30.6 | 36.9 | 36.3 | 31.4 | 25.2 | 41.4 | 47.4 | 26.6 |
| (4.29) | (4.37) | (5.95) | (4.91) | (5.82) | (6.55) | (5.76) | (4.59) | (6.75) | (9.27) | (7.68) | (8.24) | |
| A fair amount | 24.2 | 23.3 | 16.2 | 15.1 | 23.7 | 23.5 | 13.8 | 16.9 | 20.7 | 19.5 | 23.7 | 24.5 |
| (3.81) | (3.86) | (4.40) | (3.55) | (5.37) | (5.76) | (4.13) | (3.70) | (6.30) | (7.45) | (6.54) | (8.02) | |
| Just some | 15.8 | 14.1 | 12.0 | 11.4 | 24.0 | 19.6 | 23.0 | 22.1 | 18.9 | 11.3 | 7.5 | 20.0 |
| (3.24) | (3.18) | (3.88) | (3.15) | (5.39) | (5.39) | (5.04) | (4.10) | (6.08) | (5.96) | (4.05) | (7.46) | |
| Not too much | 23.1 | 27.1 | 26.1 | 30.6 | 21.7 | 20.0 | 27.0 | 29.6 | 35.1 | 27.8 | 21.4 | 28.9 |
| (3.75) | (4.06) | (5.25) | (4.57) | (5.21) | (5.43) | (5.31) | (4.51) | (7.42) | (8.43) | (6.31) | (8.45) | |
| Youth rely on a boy- or girlfriend: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 32.6 | 32.7 | 30.2 | 37.3 | 25.1 | 31.5 | 35.4 | 36.3 | 18.8 | 39.5 | 38.5 | 29.4 |
| (4.22) | (4.52) | (5.88) | (4.95) | (5.63) | (6.77) | (5.83) | (4.93) | (6.91) | (9.65) | (7.83) | (8.59) | |
| A fair amount | 25.8 | 20.9 | 20.1 | 23.0 | 25.6 | 23.1 | 12.5 | 18.4 | 11.1 | 13.7 | 14.8 | 13.7 |
| (3.94) | (3.92) | (5.14) | (4.31) | (5.67) | (6.14) | (4.03) | (3.97) | (5.56) | (6.79) | (5.71) | (6.48) | |
| Just some | 17.1 | 15.1 | 13.3 | 12.2 | 15.2 | 16.7 | 9.7 | 15.4 | 13.4 | 16.1 | 9.8 | 9.2 |
| (3.39) | (3.45) | (4.35) | (3.35) | (4.66) | (5.44) | (3.61) | (3.70) | (6.03) | (7.26) | (4.78) | (5.45) | |
| Not too much | 24.4 | 31.2 | 36.3 | 27.6 | 34.0 | 28.7 | 42.4 | 29.9 | 56.6 | 30.6 | 36.8 | 47.7 |
| (3.86) | (4.47) | (6.16) | (4.58) | (6.15) | (6.59) | (6.02) | (4.69) | (8.77) | (9.10) | (7.76) | (9.42) | |
| 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. | ||||||||||||
