Community Mobility Plans: Improving Community Participation Through Travel Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Enhancing Community Participation and Service Access for Transitional-Age Youth and Young Adults With Developmental Disabilities Through Community Mobility Plans

The goal of this study is to establish a proof-of-product by evaluating and refining the "Community Mobility Planning Process" curriculum activities with adolescents and young adults (AYA; ages 16-25 years) with Intellectual Disabilities (ID).

The main questions it aims to answer are:

- Is the Community Mobility Planning Process feasible to implement with adolescents and young adults with ID?

Participants will:

• Complete surveys and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) related to their experiences, attitudes, and feelings about community mobility.
• Complete a series of structured activities including worksheets, discussions, and specific skill building activities and share de-identified worksheets with the research team.
• Provide feedback about what they liked and didn't like about the the Community Mobility Planning Process.

Study Overview

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Conditions: Intellectual and Developmental Disability
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Community Mobility Planning Process (CMPP)

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 60
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32611
      • University of Florida

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Part of the program/classroom where professional plans to implement the Community Mobility Planning Process.
• 16-30 at start of implementation.
• Mild to moderate intellectual disability.
• Can participate in program activities in English.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Plan to end/stop participation in the current organization in <9 months from time of enrollment.
• A developmental disability without an intellectual disability
• Participants considered legally blind or deaf will be excluded to ensure a more homogeneous group for the initial development process

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Community Mobility Planning Process

Behavioral: Community Mobility Planning Process (CMPP); The Community Mobility Planning Process (CMPP) consists of 5 steps to be implemented over an 8-week period. The steps take a young adult with intellectual or developmental disabilities and their support staff through a series of activities to help them develop a plan to be more independent in their daily activities. Step 1: Identify Person-Centered Community Mobility Priorities & Preferences (Weeks 1-4), Step 2: Evaluate Person & Environment Components Supporting Community Mobility (Weeks 5-8), Step 3: Set a Person-Centered Community Mobility Goal (Weeks 9-10), Step 4: Deliver Interventions to Support Community Mobility (Weeks 11-21), Step 5: Evaluate Progress (Weeks 22-24). Each step has objectives and activities to support learning.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Community Mobility Experience	This survey assesses how often and how easily individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) leave home to participate in daily activities. It includes questions on transportation use, satisfaction, ease of access, and barriers or supports to community mobility. Responses help inform transportation needs and evaluate mobility-related interventions. The Community Mobility Experience Survey includes four scoring domains: frequency of community mobility (1-5), ease of mobility (1-4), sufficiency of mobility (0-2), and satisfaction with mobility (1-4). Higher scores indicate greater frequency, ease, sufficiency, or satisfaction with community mobility. In addition, specific transportation modes are evaluated across the same four domains-frequency, ease, sufficiency, and satisfaction-using the same scoring scales.	Pre-test, 1 month Post-test
Community Mobility Self-Efficacy	This brief self-report measure assesses an individual's confidence in completing key steps related to community mobility and transportation planning. The scale responses are informed by standards outline by Bandura's self-efficacy theory, and items are modified from the general self-efficacy scale. Scores range from 20 to 60, with higher scores indicating a greater feeling of self-efficacy with community mobility.	Pre-test, 1 month Post-test
PROMIS Satisfaction with Participation and Discretionary Social Activities	This brief PROM, available from PROMIS, evaluates satisfaction with level of involvement in leisure activities. Scores range from 7 to 35, with higher scores indicating higher satisfaction with social roles and activities.	Pre-test, 1 month Post-test

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Temple University
• Collaborators: National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Beth Pfeiffer, PhD, OTR/L, BCP, FAOTA, Temple University; Principal Investigator: Jessica Kramer, PhD, OTR/L, University of Florida

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 26, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): September 1, 2028
• Study Completion (Estimated): September 1, 2028

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 23, 2026
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 6, 2026
• First Posted (Actual): February 10, 2026

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 10, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 6, 2026
• Last Verified: January 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Adolescents; Young Adults; Transportation; Community Mobility; Community Mobility Planning; Travel Intervention
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Developmental Disabilities
• Other Study ID Numbers: 31078; 901FDV0034-01-00 (Other Grant/Funding Number: Field Initiated Project, National Institute in Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR))

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No