Comparing the Impact of Peer Support vs. Staff-Delivered Transportation Interventions for Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Study Summary

This clinical trial will look at whether young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (YA-IDD) have better outcomes when a travel training intervention called Ready to Ride (R2R) is taught by a specially trained Peer Supporter (PS) who shares the lived experience of having an IDD than YA-IDD who are taught Ready to Ride by staff at their community services organization. The aspects of life being looked at are loneliness, satisfaction with social activities, travel skills, service use and access, employment, and health related quality of life. The researchers think the following things will happen. 1. YA-IDD who learn from a Peer Supporter will report significantly higher satisfaction with social activities, increased social connectedness and significantly less loneliness compared to YA who are taught organization staff. 2. Both groups will learn the same amount of travel skills. 3. YA-IDD who learn from a Peer Supporter will show larger increases in access to community-based services, transportation use, employment and health related services after 4 months than the YA taught by organizational staff.

Primary Outcome

The Progressive Evaluation of Travel Skills (PETS) ) is a direct observation measure of independent travel, as rated by the level of support needed for participants to complete transportation-related skills. This tool has established content and construct validity with people with IDD. The PETS will be administered by research staff masked to group assignment who will evaluate each participant on a standardized route. The standardized routes have comparable difficulties across local public trans

Interventions

• BEHAVIORAL Ready to Ride - Standard Delivery
• BEHAVIORAL Ready to Ride - Peer Support Delivery