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

Conditions

• Developmental Disability
• Intellectual Disability, Mild to Moderate

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - 27 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Ready to Ride - Standard Delivery — BEHAVIORAL
  The standard delivery will be implemented by non-peer staff serving as interventionists. These staff will deliver the Ready to Ride (R2R) training, an established evidence-based travel training program. The intervention includes a total of 16 sessions. Six sessions consist of structured lessons focused on travel safety, awareness, preparedness, and skill development. The remaining sessions involve community-based learning, where participants practice travel skills in real-world settings with varying levels of support provided by the interventionist.
• Ready to Ride - Peer Support Delivery — BEHAVIORAL
  The peer support delivery will be implemented by trained peer interventionists. Peer interventionists are individuals with lived experience of disability who are trained to provide structured support while sharing their experiences. They will deliver the Ready to Ride (R2R) training, an established evidence-based travel training program. The intervention includes a total of 16 sessions. Six sessions consist of structured lessons focused on travel safety, awareness, preparedness, and skill development. The remaining sessions involve community-based learning, where participants practice travel skills in real-world settings with varying levels of support. Peer interventionists will provide support through modeling, shared experience, encouragement, and guided practice.

Study Details

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 Dates

Start date

May 31, 2026

Status verified

Mar 2026

Primary completion

Jun 30, 2030

Completion

Jun 30, 2030

Study Design

Enrollment

325 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Arms

• Experimental: Peer Support Delivery (R2R-PS)
• Active Comparator: Standard Delivery (R2R-S)

Primary Outcome Measure

Progressive Evaluation of Travel Skills (PETS) [ Time Frame: Data will be collected at 3 time points: 1) pre-test (<14 days prior to R2R), 2) post-test 1 (within 4 days of R2R completion) and 3) post-test 2 (4 months after R2R completion). ]

Central Contacts

• Beth Pfeiffer, PhD, OTR/L, BCP, FAOTA
  (215) 204-0828
  [email protected]
• Laura Elizabeth Slugg, BS
  2154290005
  [email protected]

Locations (3)

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