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Perceptions and Expectations of Youth With Disabilities  (NLTS2)
NCSER 2007-3006
September 2007

Table 3.  Youth with disabilities' reported feelings about negative aspects of self and life, by disability category

How often youth felt this in the past week Learning disability Speech/ language impairment Mental retardation Emotional disturbance Hearing impairment Visual impairment Orthopedic impairment Other health impairment Autism Traumatic brain injury Multiple disabilities Deaf-blindness
Percent / standard error
Percentage who feel:                        
Depressed                        
Most or all of the time 2.8 5.9 11.0 5.6 4.3 3.0 7.2 4.8 5.6 6.2 12.3 2.0
(1.40) (2.10) (3.65) (2.12) (2.49) (2.17) (2.97) (2.00) (3.40) (4.35) (4.91) (2.53)
A lot of the time 3.1 4.0 4.8 5.6 4.3 4.1 10.2 4.4 7.0 5.4 2.1 4.1
(1.47) (1.74) (2.49) (2.12) (2.49) (2.52) (3.48) (1.92) (3.77) (4.08) (2.14) (3.58)
Sometimes 36.3 29.3 32.3 29.4 31.1 22.8 18.1 33.6 36.4 32.4 42.0 37.4
(4.09) (4.05) (5.45) (4.21) (5.68) (5.34) (4.43) (4.43) (7.11) (8.44) (7.38) (8.73)
Rarely or never 57.8 60.8 52.0 59.3 60.4 70.1 64.6 57.2 51.0 56.0 43.6 56.5
(4.20) (4.34) (5.82) (4.54) (6.01) (5.83) (5.50) (4.64) (7.39) (8.96) (7.42) (8.95)
                         
Lonely                        
Most or all of the time 5.7 7.6 5.2 8.4 8.9 8.4 9.9 10.9 3.3 10.7 8.5 6.4
(2.93) (2.26) (4.01) (2.47) (2.67) (2.57) (3.42) (4.71) (2.20) (3.58) (4.11) (4.42)
A lot of the time 4.0 3.2 10.4 3.4 5.9 4.5 6.3 5.1 7.8 6.1 9.0 12.5
(2.48) (1.50) (5.51) (1.61) (2.21) (1.92) (2.78) (3.33) (3.30) (2.77) (4.22) (5.97)
Sometimes 24.3 24.1 19.4 24.6 21.9 24.2 25.2 28.3 35.2 35.1 34.7 35.5
(5.42) (3.64) (7.14) (3.83) (3.87) (3.96) (4.98) (6.81) (5.87) (5.53) (7.02) (8.64)
Rarely or never 66.0 65.2 64.9 63.5 63.3 62.8 58.6 55.7 53.7 48.1 47.8 45.6
(5.99) (4.05) (8.61) (4.28) (4.51) (4.47) (5.64) (7.51) (6.13) (5.79) (7.37) (8.99)
                         
Disliked                        
Most or all of the time 1.6 6.2 13.6 4.5 6.3 9.0 5.8 8.2 6.6 10.2 6.3 8.4
(1.59) (2.06) (6.19) (1.86) (2.28) (2.67) (2.68) (4.15) (3.07) (2.28) (3.62) (5.01)
A lot of the time 2.7 3.6 3.6 3.9 5.2 4.6 5.5 3.5 2.3 3.6 8.4 4.1
(2.05) (1.59) (3.36) (1.74) (2.09) (1.95) (2.62) (2.78) (1.85) (2.16) (4.14) (3.58)
Sometimes 20.4 28.0 15.9 29.2 25.8 21.3 21.7 39.0 32.0 38.3 37.1 31.2
(5.10) (3.83) (6.60) (4.08) (4.11) (3.82) (4.73) (7.38) (5.77) (5.64) (7.20) (8.36)
Rarely or never 75.3 62.3 66.9 62.3 62.7 65.1 67.0 49.3 59.1 47.9 48.1 56.3
(5.45) (4.14) (8.49) (4.35) (4.54) (4.45) (5.40) (7.57) (6.08) (5.79) (7.45) (8.95)
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.

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