Table 19. Youth with disabilities' reported expectations for their future independence, by disability category
| Expectations1 | 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 expected to: | ||||||||||||
| Get a driver's license | ||||||||||||
| Definitely will | 86.3 | 87.2 | 57.9 | 81.8 | 91.5 | 12.4 | 57.0 | 80.7 | 54.0 | 86.6 | 53.1 | 25.2 |
| (2.93) | (2.98) | (5.89) | (3.59) | (3.44) | (4.15) | (5.75) | (3.70) | (7.44) | (6.19) | (7.64) | (7.84) | |
| Probably will | 11.7 | 11.6 | 28.2 | 14.2 | 7.3 | # | 24.2 | 12.7 | 24.5 | 8.2 | 19.4 | 6.3 |
| (2.74) | (2.86) | (5.37) | (3.25) | (3.21) | (4.97) | (3.12) | (6.42) | (4.98) | (6.05) | (4.39) | ||
| Definitely or probably won't | 2.0 | 1.2 | 13.9 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 87.6 | 18.8 | 6.6 | 21.5 | 5.2 | 27.4 | 68.6 |
| (1.19) | (0.97) | (4.13) | (1.82) | (1.34) | (4.15) | (4.54) | (2.33) | (6.13) | (4.03) | (6.83) | (8.38) | |
| Get a paid job | ||||||||||||
| Definitely will | 97.1 | 95.7 | 86.3 | 92.9 | 96.1 | 92.6 | 83.8 | 95.8 | 77.7 | 92.5 | 86.1 | 82.2 |
| (1.43) | (1.82) | (4.14) | (2.39) | (2.38) | (3.35) | (4.31) | (1.90) | (6.25) | (4.78) | (5.23) | (7.13) | |
| Probably will | 2.6 | 4.3 | 9.7 | 5.8 | 3.1 | 7.2 | 11.3 | 4.2 | 9.8 | 6.7 | 11.2 | 17.8 |
| (1.36) | (1.82) | (3.56) | (2.18) | (2.13) | (3.31) | (3.70) | (1.90) | (5.98) | (4.53) | (4.76) | (7.13) | |
| Definitely or probably won't | 0.2 | # | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 4.9 | # | 2.6 | 0.8 | 2.7 | # |
| (0.38) | (2.36) | (1.06) | (1.09) | (0.57) | (2.52) | (2.39) | (1.62) | (2.45) | ||||
| Be financially self-supporting | ||||||||||||
| Definitely will | 71.3 | 60.6 | 37.1 | 66.2 | 57.8 | 68.6 | 46.8 | 67.4 | 34.3 | 62.2 | 29.2 | 40.4 |
| (3.93) | (4.48) | (6.21) | (4.47) | (6.46) | (6.09) | (6.00) | (4.59) | (7.64) | (9.12) | (7.61) | (9.47) | |
| Probably will | 25.0 | 35.8 | 48.1 | 28.3 | 35.5 | 28.7 | 36.2 | 26.9 | 43.1 | 35.9 | 46.0 | 45.4 |
| (3.77) | (4.39) | (6.42) | (4.26) | (6.26) | (5.93) | (5.77) | (4.35) | (7.97) | (9.03) | (8.34) | (9.61) | |
| Definitely or probably won't | 3.7 | 3.6 | 14.8 | 5.5 | 6.8 | 2.7 | 16.9 | 5.7 | 22.5 | 1.9 | 24.8 | 14.1 |
| (1.64) | (1.71) | (4.57) | (2.16) | (3.29) | (2.13) | (4.50) | (2.27) | (6.72) | (2.57) | (7.23) | (6.72) | |
| Live independently without supervision | ||||||||||||
| Definitely will | 76.7 | 69.2 | 48.8 | 78.0 | 66.9 | 68.7 | 57.4 | 76.0 | 45.8 | 75.8 | 40.8 | 57.8 |
| (3.61) | (4.14) | (5.91) | (3.89) | (5.99) | (5.91) | (5.78) | (4.04) | (7.57) | (7.93) | (7.63) | (9.21) | |
| Probably will | 20.1 | 24.9 | 36.7 | 17.2 | 22.6 | 26.9 | 23.1 | 18.7 | 31.9 | 21.6 | 35.3 | 26.8 |
| (3.43) | (3.88) | (5.70) | (3.55) | (5.32) | (5.65) | (4.93) | (3.69) | (7.08) | (7.62) | (7.41) | (8.26) | |
| Definitely or probably won't | 3.2 | 5.9 | 14.5 | 4.7 | 10.6 | 4.4 | 19.5 | 5.4 | 22.3 | 2.6 | 23.9 | 15.4 |
| (1.50) | (2.11) | (4.16) | (1.99) | (3.92) | (2.61) | (4.63) | (2.14) | (6.33) | (2.94) | (6.62) | (6.73) | |
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1 Youth who have attained the outcome are included as "definitely will." 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. | ||||||||||||
