Table 10. Youth's reported perceptions of school safety, by disability category
School safety | 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 |
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Percent / standard error | ||||||||||||
Percentage reporting at school they feel: | ||||||||||||
Very safe | 35.5 | 37.1 | 43.9 | 45.3 | 46.8 | 52.0 | 39.4 | 37.7 | 52.6 | 47.3 | 45.7 | 48.3 |
(4.35) | (4.55) | (5.91) | (5.25) | (6.49) | (6.26) | (5.91) | (5.02) | (7.73) | (9.47) | (7.72) | (9.42) | |
Pretty safe | 56.5 | 55.5 | 51.5 | 41.6 | 44.8 | 45.7 | 55.3 | 55.3 | 43.4 | 47.4 | 42.7 | 47.2 |
(4.51) | (4.68) | (5.96) | (5.20) | (6.47) | (6.24) | (6.01) | (5.15) | (7.67) | (9.47) | (7.66) | (9.41) | |
Not very or not at all safe | 7.9 | 7.4 | 4.6 | 13.1 | 8.4 | 2.3 | 5.3 | 7.1 | 4.0 | 5.2 | 11.6 | 4.5 |
(2.45) | (2.46) | (2.50) | (3.56) | (3.61) | (1.88) | (2.71) | (2.66) | (3.03) | (4.21) | (4.96) | (3.91) | |
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. |