Table 16. Reported extent of youth's reliance on persons other than family and friends for support, 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 | ||||||||||||
| In-school youth rely on teachers: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 23.9 | 12.1 | 45.2 | 22.1 | 27.4 | 20.6 | 38.1 | 24.0 | 36.2 | 23.1 | 28.8 | ‡ |
| (5.05) | (3.70) | (8.37) | (5.57) | (8.60) | (5.89) | (7.62) | (5.63) | (9.93) | (8.99) | (9.36) | ||
| A fair amount | 30.2 | 31.5 | 11.5 | 22.4 | 14.7 | 36.7 | 28.1 | 23.3 | 21.0 | 18.1 | 24.9 | ‡ |
| (5.43) | (5.27) | (5.36) | (5.60) | (6.83) | (7.02) | (7.05) | (5.57) | (8.42) | (8.22) | (8.93) | ||
| Just some | 23.8 | 22.0 | 23.9 | 17.5 | 27.7 | 21.0 | 12.0 | 26.6 | 25.8 | 22.3 | 13.3 | ‡ |
| (5.04) | (4.70) | (7.17) | (5.10) | (8.63) | (5.94) | (5.10) | (5.83) | (9.04) | (8.88) | (7.02) | ||
| Not too much | 22.1 | 34.4 | 19.4 | 38.0 | 30.3 | 21.8 | 21.9 | 26.1 | 17.1 | 36.5 | 33.0 | ‡ |
| (4.91) | (5.39) | (6.65) | (6.52) | (8.86) | (6.02) | (6.49) | (5.79) | (7.78) | (10.27) | (9.71) | ||
| Youth rely on clerics: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 27.9 | 24.5 | 30.7 | 20.6 | 9.0 | 18.2 | 24.1 | 25.3 | 13.8 | 28.5 | 23.7 | ‡ |
| (4.19) | (4.11) | (5.83) | (4.31) | (3.75) | (5.44) | (5.24) | (4.69) | (5.61) | (9.06) | (7.03) | ||
| A fair amount | 13.4 | 20.5 | 13.2 | 16.1 | 13.9 | 19.1 | 11.6 | 20.4 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 17.9 | ‡ |
| (3.18) | (3.86) | (4.28) | (3.91) | (4.53) | (5.54) | (3.92) | (4.34) | (4.97) | (6.12) | (6.34) | ||
| Just some | 11.0 | 13.1 | 11.0 | 12.3 | 16.5 | 18.5 | 16.6 | 10.0 | 20.8 | 7.2 | 8.8 | ‡ |
| (2.92) | (3.22) | (3.96) | (3.50) | (4.86) | (5.47) | (4.56) | (3.23) | (6.60) | (5.19) | (4.69) | ||
| Not too much | 47.7 | 41.9 | 45.1 | 50.9 | 60.5 | 44.2 | 47.7 | 44.3 | 55.1 | 53.8 | 49.6 | ‡ |
| (4.66) | (4.72) | (6.29) | (5.32) | (6.40) | (7.00) | (6.12) | (5.35) | (8.09) | (10.00) | (8.27) | ||
| Employed youth rely on boss or supervisor: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 17.2 | 24.3 | 25.7 | 23.3 | 10.5 | 29.2 | 17.3 | 28.3 | ‡ | 28.8 | ‡ | ‡ |
| (5.72) | (6.30) | (11.62) | (7.60) | (7.78) | (13.86) | (12.56) | (7.18) | (17.28) | ||||
| A fair amount | 27.6 | 27.9 | 13.3 | 23.8 | 10.6 | 17.8 | 4.8 | 25.9 | ‡ | 18.7 | ‡ | ‡ |
| (6.78) | (6.59) | (9.03) | (7.66) | (7.81) | (11.66) | (7.10) | (6.99) | (14.88) | ||||
| Just some | 15.4 | 15.8 | 12.2 | 15.8 | 28.8 | 20.3 | 15.7 | 11.8 | ‡ | 25.8 | ‡ | ‡ |
| (5.47) | (5.36) | (8.71) | (6.56) | (11.49) | (12.26) | (12.08) | (5.15) | (16.70) | ||||
| Not too much | 39.9 | 32.0 | 48.9 | 37.1 | 50.1 | 32.6 | 62.3 | 33.9 | ‡ | 26.7 | ‡ | ‡ |
| (7.43) | (6.85) | (13.30) | (8.69) | (12.69) | (14.29) | (16.09) | (7.55) | (16.88) | ||||
| In-school youth rely on a guidance counselor: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 14.3 | 14.4 | 33.7 | 30.6 | 17.6 | 10.7 | 25.6 | 16.3 | 25.0 | 17.0 | 27.6 | ‡ |
| (4.29) | (4.09) | (8.18) | (6.48) | (7.79) | (4.73) | (6.94) | (5.07) | (9.18) | (8.32) | (9.49) | ||
| A fair amount | 23.1 | 24.8 | 14.4 | 16.0 | 17.1 | 27.6 | 14.5 | 26.1 | 26.6 | 18.0 | 29.6 | ‡ |
| (5.17) | (5.03) | (6.08) | (5.15) | (7.70) | (6.83) | (5.60) | (6.02) | (9.37) | (8.51) | (9.69) | ||
| Just some | 24.7 | 15.8 | 15.8 | 11.9 | 16.1 | 24.4 | 21.8 | 19.5 | 19.3 | 27.2 | 15.4 | ‡ |
| (5.29) | (4.25) | (6.31) | (4.55) | (7.52) | (6.57) | (6.57) | (5.43) | (8.37) | (9.86) | (7.66) | ||
| Not too much | 37.9 | 45.0 | 36.1 | 41.5 | 49.2 | 37.4 | 38.1 | 38.1 | 29.0 | 37.7 | 27.5 | ‡ |
| (5.95) | (5.79) | (8.31) | (6.93) | (10.23) | (7.40) | (7.72) | (6.66) | (9.62) | (10.74) | (9.48) | ||
| Employed youth rely on coworkers: | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 9.1 | 8.5 | 20.0 | 15.2 | 5.7 | 12.7 | 13.9 | 19.2 | ‡ | 22.8 | ‡ | ‡ |
| (4.31) | (4.08) | (11.26) | (6.52) | (5.96) | (10.50) | (11.91) | (6.31) | (15.64) | ||||
| A fair amount | 19.1 | 31.5 | 14.1 | 27.8 | 18.8 | 36.0 | 6.5 | 22.4 | ‡ | 8.4 | ‡ | ‡ |
| (5.89) | (6.79) | (9.80) | (8.14) | (10.05) | (15.14) | (8.49) | (6.68) | (10.34) | ||||
| Just some | 23.7 | 17.7 | 22.6 | 20.1 | 25.4 | 24.2 | 21.4 | 22.4 | ‡ | 36.1 | ‡ | ‡ |
| (6.37) | (5.58) | (11.77) | (7.28) | (11.20) | (13.51) | (14.12) | (6.68) | (17.90) | ||||
| Not too much | 48.1 | 42.2 | 43.3 | 36.9 | 50.1 | 27.1 | 58.2 | 36.0 | ‡ | 32.8 | ‡ | ‡ |
| (7.48) | (7.22) | (13.95) | (8.77) | (12.86) | (14.02) | (16.98) | (7.69) | (17.50) | ||||
| Youth rely on other adult(s): | ||||||||||||
| A lot | 35.4 | 37.4 | 40.5 | 39.6 | 39.7 | 41.4 | 28.9 | 40.3 | 35.3 | 38.7 | 37.3 | 44.6 |
| (4.31) | (4.48) | (5.98) | (4.91) | (6.16) | (6.49) | (5.42) | (4.87) | (7.42) | (9.27) | (7.48) | (9.27) | |
| A fair amount | 27.9 | 25.1 | 13.5 | 19.1 | 28.5 | 20.7 | 23.7 | 22.5 | 28.3 | 32.4 | 17.9 | 26.6 |
| (4.04) | (4.02) | (4.16) | (3.95) | (5.69) | (5.34) | (5.08) | (4.14) | (6.99) | (8.90) | (5.93) | (8.24) | |
| Just some | 20.2 | 20.4 | 11.5 | 17.8 | 20.1 | 25.0 | 23.8 | 21.4 | 22.1 | 15.8 | 24.8 | 19.9 |
| (3.62) | (3.73) | (3.88) | (3.84) | (5.05) | (5.71) | (5.09) | (4.07) | (6.44) | (6.94) | (6.68) | (7.44) | |
| Not too much | 16.6 | 17.2 | 34.4 | 23.4 | 11.7 | 12.8 | 23.7 | 15.8 | 14.2 | 13.1 | 20.0 | 9.0 |
| (3.35) | (3.50) | (5.78) | (4.25) | (4.05) | (4.40) | (5.08) | (3.62) | (5.42) | (6.42) | (6.18) | (5.34) | |
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‡ Responses for items with fewer than 30 respondents are not reported. SOURCES: 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; youth in-person youth interviews, 2002 and 2004. | ||||||||||||
