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.
See this in plain English?
AI-rewrites the medical criteria so a patient or caregiver can understand them. Always confirm with the trial site.
Progressive Evaluation of Travel Skills (PETS)
Timeframe: 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).
NIH Toolbox® Item Bank v3.0 - Loneliness (Ages 18+) - Fixed Form (PROM)
Timeframe: 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).
PROMIS Short Form v1.0 - Satisfaction with Participation in Discretionary Social Activities 7a (PROM)
Timeframe: 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).
Beth Pfeiffer, PhD, OTR/L, BCP, FAOTA