Table 17. Correlations among youth with disabilities' reported expectations for their future educational and independence attainment
| Expectation | Graduate from highschool | Go to postsec-ondary school | Complete voc tech school | Complete 2-year college | Complete 4-year college | Get a driver's license | Get a paid job | Be financially self-supporting | Live indepen-dently without super-vision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graduate from high school with a regular diploma | 1.00 | .31*** | .10*** | .14*** | .23*** | .06** | .13*** | .19*** | .19*** |
| Attend school after high school | 1.00 | .56*** | .48*** | .59*** | .08*** | .10*** | .21*** | .20*** | |
| Complete a postsecondary vocational, technical, or trade school | 1.00 | .59*** | .36*** | .11*** | .06** | .16*** | .14*** | ||
| Graduate from a 2-year college | 1.00 | .41*** | .13*** | .09*** | .17*** | .16*** | |||
| Graduate from a 4-year college | 1.00 | .10*** | .13*** | .27*** | .23*** | ||||
| Get a driver's license | 1.00 | .18*** | .26*** | .32*** | |||||
| Get a paid job | 1.00 | .33*** | .25*** | ||||||
| Be financially self-supporting | 1.00 | .49*** | |||||||
| Live independently without supervision | 1.00 | ||||||||
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**p < .01, ***p < .001. 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. | |||||||||
