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(23KB)| Table 383. | Current postsecondary education and employment status, wages earned, and living arrangements of special education students out of secondary school up to 4 years, by type of disability: 2005 |
| Type of disability | Percentage attending postsecondary institutions | Percentage competitively employed2 | Mean hourly wage at current job3 |
Percentage living independently4 | |||||||||||||||
| Any post-secondary1 | 4-year | 2-year | Vocational/ technical | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| All disabilities5 | 23.4 | (2.62) | 7.8 | (1.66) | 12.9 | (2.08) | 6.3 | (1.51) | 69.5 | (3.51) | $8.30 | (0.32) | 28.1 | (2.94) | |||||
| Specific learning disability | 25.0 | (3.99) | 8.8 | (2.61) | 13.1 | (3.12) | 6.3 | ! | (2.24) | 77.2 | (4.85) | 8.30 | (0.38) | 31.8 | (4.53) | ||||
| Mental retardation | 12.0 | (3.44) | 1.4 | ! | (1.24) | 7.8 | ! | (2.85) | 5.3 | ! | (2.38) | 36.3 | (6.04) | 7.40 | (0.65) | 13.7 | (3.82) | ||
| Emotional disturbance | 11.8 | (2.95) | 2.1 | ! | (1.31) | 8.2 | ! | (2.54) | 4.3 | ! | (1.86) | 64.5 | (5.56) | 8.90 | (0.75) | 25.2 | (4.21) | ||
| Speech or language impairment | 36.0 | (4.80) | 19.6 | (3.98) | 19.6 | (3.98) | 6.7 | ! | (2.51) | 71.0 | (5.37) | 8.00 | (0.53) | 31.4 | (4.85) | ||||
| Multiple disabilities | 25.7 | (6.64) | 6.7 | ! | (3.82) | 12.5 | ! | (5.07) | 6.7 | ! | (3.81) | 39.8 | (8.76) | 8.80 | (1.17) | 6.6 | ! | (3.91) | |
| Other health impairment | 33.3 | (4.54) | 8.8 | ! | (2.74) | 23.1 | (4.09) | 11.9 | (3.14) | 76.2 | (4.80) | 8.10 | (0.38) | 20.4 | (4.08) | ||||
| Hearing impairment6 | 50.7 | (5.88) | 21.2 | (4.89) | 26.0 | (5.22) | 12.9 | ! | (3.99) | 56.3 | (6.95) | 7.70 | (0.55) | 29.4 | (5.66) | ||||
| Orthopedic impairment | 35.8 | (5.37) | 12.6 | (3.72) | 22.9 | (4.75) | 7.5 | ! | (2.96) | 32.0 | (6.13) | 7.80 | (0.97) | 25.4 | (5.15) | ||||
| Visual impairment | 63.9 | (7.60) | 34.4 | (7.52) | 31.7 | (7.47) | 5.2 | ! | (3.52) | 59.5 | (8.79) | 9.60 | (1.95) | 39.9 | (8.21) | ||||
| Autism | 35.8 | (8.23) | 16.1 | ! | (6.36) | 19.0 | ! | (6.76) | 5.1 | ! | (3.80) | 56.0 | (9.64) | 6.90 | (0.69) | 17.1 | ! | (6.51) | |
| Deaf-blindness | 24.6 | ! | (8.26) | 12.2 | ! | (6.42) | 8.5 | ! | (5.47) | 8.2 | ! | (5.26) | 37.0 | (9.96) | ‡ | (†) | 24.4 | ! | (8.64) |
| Traumatic brain injury | 17.0 | ! | (7.57) | 4.5 | ! | (4.20) | 11.1 | ! | (6.33) | 5.3 | ! | (4.54) | 50.2 | (11.68) | 7.80 | (0.78) | 28.0 | ! | (9.64) |
| †Not applicable. !Interpret data with caution. ‡ Reporting standards not met. 1 Includes 2- and 4-year colleges, and vocational\technical schools. 2 Competitively employed refers to those receiving more than minimum wage and working in an environment where the majority of workers are not disabled. 3 Includes wages from noncompetitive jobs. 4 Living independently includes living alone, with a spouse or roommate, in a college dormitory, in Job Corps housing, or in military housing as a service member. 5 Includes disability categories with less than 30 youths in the sample, which are not shown separately. 6 Includes deaf and hard of hearing. NOTE: Data based on students who had been out of secondary school up to 4 years and had attended special or regular schools in the 1999–2000 or 2000–01 school year. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research, National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), Wave 3 parent/youth telephone interview/mail survey, 2005. (This table was prepared August 2006.) |
