Table 7. Personal autonomy and psychological empowerment scores of youth, by disability category

Score Level	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
Score Level	Percent / standard error
Percentage of youth with scores:
Personal autonomy
High	52.1	55.1	50.4	38.9	57.0	63.4	46.5	43.3	22.9	39.2	53.2	37.7
High	(4.97)	(5.00)	(7.23)	(5.73)	(6.70)	(7.23)	(6.78)	(5.53)	(6.93)	(9.47)	(8.87)	(9.58)
Medium	45.9	43.2	47.2	58.4	41.7	35.9	51.7	56.1	72.1	58.2	46.8	59.9
Medium	(4.96)	(4.98)	(7.22)	(5.79)	(6.67)	(7.21)	(6.79)	(5.54)	(7.40)	(9.57)	(8.87)	(9.69)
Low	2.0	1.7	2.4	2.7	1.4	0.7	1.8	0.6	5.1	2.6	#	2.5
Low	(1.39)	(1.31)	(2.20)	(1.91)	(1.57)	(1.24)	(1.81)	(0.88)	(3.61)	(3.09)		(3.06)
Psychological empowerment
High	84.4	82.8	72.2	85.3	79.6	87.1	82.9	79.6	64.2	83.4	66.8	75.8
High	(3.64)	(3.81)	(6.48)	(4.17)	(5.48)	(5.06)	(5.14)	(4.55)	(8.09)	(6.97)	(8.46)	(8.81)
Medium	12.2	16.2	22.8	13.5	16.7	11.6	16.5	19.4	34.1	15.7	32.1	21.6
Medium	(3.28)	(3.72)	(6.07)	(4.04)	(5.07)	(4.82)	(5.08)	(4.46)	8.00	(6.82)	(8.39)	(8.45)
Low	3.5	1.1	5.0	1.1	3.8	1.4	0.5	1.0	1.7	0.8	1.1	2.7
Low	(1.83)	(1.03)	(3.15)	(1.25)	(2.59)	(1.77)	(1.00)	(1.13)	(2.16)	(1.70)	(1.84)	(3.30)
# Rounds to zero. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research, National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), youth in-person interviews, 2002 and 2004.