Disability and the Transition to Adulthood

Data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 are used to estimate the effect of type of disability (in order of frequency, learning, other, emotional, hearing, visual, physical and speech impairment) on young people's progress toward four adult transitions: finding full-time empl...

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Published in:Social forces 2009-09, Vol.88 (1), p.99-120
Main Author: Janus, Alexander L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent psychology
Adolescents
Adulthood
Age
Child development
Child Rearing
Children
Context Effect
Data Analysis
Developmental Stages
Diagnosis
Disabilities
Disability
Disability law
Employment
Enrollment
Full-time employment
Handicapped
Hearing
Human Capital
Independence
Independent Living
Individual Development
Intellectual disabilities
Intellectually disabled people
Investment
Learning Disabilities
Learning disorders
Life Events
Life Stage Transitions
Life transitions
Longitudinal Studies
Marriage
Parenthood
Parents
Part time employment
Peers
People with disabilities
Personal development
Physical disabilities
Psychological aspects
Residence
Residents
Respondents
Self Concept
Social development
Socially handicapped
Sociology
Sociology of disability
Sociology of health and medicine
Special education
Speech
Speech Impairments
Speech-language pathology
Students with Disabilities
Transformations in the Life Course
Transitions
Work Experience
Young Adults
Youth
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Summary:Data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 are used to estimate the effect of type of disability (in order of frequency, learning, other, emotional, hearing, visual, physical and speech impairment) on young people's progress toward four adult transitions: finding full-time employment, establishing an independent residence, marrying and having children. I find that young people who have a visual, hearing, speech or "other" impairment are more likely than their nondisabled peers to find themselves among the respondents who did not complete any of the adult transitions examined in the analysis. Young people who have a learning disability are also more likely to be in a "just workers" group (i.e., respondents who are still living at home, for the most part, but working fulltime).
ISSN:0037-7732
1534-7605
DOI:10.1353/sof.0.0248