Table 12. Youth's reported enjoyment of school, by disability category

Enjoyment of school	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
Enjoyment of school	Percent / standard error
Percentage reporting they enjoy school:
A lot	25.3	27.0	52.3	22.8	29.3	37.2	34.0	20.9	31.4	25.7	50.4	43.4
A lot	(3.93)	(4.17)	(5.94)	(4.38)	(5.89)	(6.03)	(5.72)	(4.18)	(7.11)	(8.09)	(7.75)	(9.34)
Pretty much	43.2	46.0	21.4	29.5	37.6	38.5	42.6	41.0	40.2	42.2	21.9	40.8
Pretty much	(4.48)	(4.68)	(4.88)	(4.77)	(6.27)	(6.07)	(5.98)	(5.06)	(7.51)	(9.15)	(6.41)	(9.27)
A little	19.5	20.0	19.5	31.0	23.6	16.9	16.6	26.5	20.7	28.5	18.6	11.3
A little	(3.58)	(3.75)	(4.71)	(4.83)	(5.50)	(4.67)	(4.50)	(4.54)	(6.20)	(8.36)	(6.03)	(5.97)
Not at all	12.0	7.0	6.8	16.6	9.5	7.4	6.9	11.7	7.7	3.5	9.2	4.5
Not at all	(2.94)	(2.39)	(2.99)	(3.89)	(3.80)	(3.26)	(3.06)	(3.30)	(4.08)	(3.40)	(4.48)	(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.