Comparing the Impact of Peer Support vs. Staff-Delivered Transportation Interventions for Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
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Conditions studied: Intellectual Disability, Mild to Moderate, Developmental Disability
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07505121
- Run by
- Temple University
- People needed
- 325
- Starts
- 2026-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2030-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-04-01
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 27. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Between the ages of 18 to 27 years old during the start of the study
- Receives services at one of the eight community service organizations participating in the study.
- Meets the federal diagnosis of a developmental disability (DD)
- Qualifies for services related to their DD.
- Scores >28 on the Transportation Prescreening Assessment (indicating readiness for travel).
You may not qualify if…
- Independently uses public transportation >4 times/month.
- Is not able to independently mobilize through walking or use of a mobility device.
- Has significant non-corrected visual impairments.
Where it is running
- University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- University of New Hampshire — Durham, New Hampshire, United States
- University of Florida — Gainesville, Florida, United States
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