Travel Trainer

[Richard Ducane]

I am looking for a good definition of a travel trainer, does anyone one?

 

Richard Ducane, Regional Mobility Manager

MITW - Department of Transit Services

P.O. Box 910

W2794 Go Around Road

Keshena, WI  54135

715-799-3222 Ex: 1721

Fax: 799-1513

rdu...@mitw.org

 

[Sutherland, Jennifer]

According to Easter Seals Project Action  ( www.projectaction.org):

 

"Travel training is intensive training that gives people with disabilities the skills required to travel safely on fixed-route public transportation. The methods of travel instruction must reflect the individual needs of the person being trained and travel trainers must have a thorough understanding of a person's ability to travel safely and independently."

 

Further explanation is in Project Action's Intro to Travel Training, 2008; which I think you can find on their website.

 

 

Jen Sutherland
Mobility Manager
Dane County Human Services- Adult Community Services
608-242-6489/ 608-242-6531 Fax
suthe...@co.dane.wi.us

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[MCLR...@aol.com]

Project ACTION focuses on people with disabilities, so their definition is designed for PWD. Travel training can and is much broader to include seniors, students, and all other people. Travel training is one way to increase mobility for all populations.

James j

 

James j McLary
McLary Management
17419 Four Seasons Drive
Dumfries, VA 22025-1872
703-590-3361
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[Groce Margaret (750000)]

At this time travel training is an overarching term that is used to describe a wide range of travel instruction services to persons with disabilities and seniors.  Initially, travel training is/was, as described by Project ACTION, a comprehensive, intensive, individualized one-to-one training designed to help people with disabilities, including students, develop the skills required to travel safely and independently on public transportation.  Time and the realization of the breadth of the need for some type of travel training services for seniors require us to look into the definition more closely.  Some individuals who have been independent travelers and have internalized the skills for moving about in public and crossing streets but are unfamiliar with – or have never used –  public transportation need one type of support for using the fixed-route system; a second group may need assistance in learning how to deal with slower cognitive and motor reactions for crossing streets and boarding/exiting fixed-route buses requiring the knowledge and skills of a trained travel trainer; a third group may be familiar with travel skills but not with using a mobility device and may need the skills of environmental analysis and different ways of looking at, and using, the environment that are included in the competencies of a travel trainer; a fourth group may have no experience at all in moving about the community independently and require extensive and intensive training by a highly skilled travel trainer, etc.  The list of groups can go on and on.

 

Now, with all that out of the way, Richard, I would say a travel trainer is an individual who has had specific training in a range of travel training competencies, including assessment, environmental analysis, and route planning (see Project ACTION’s Competencies for the Practice of Travel Instruction and Travel Training), follows specified guidelines and procedures regarding documentation of activities and plans, and has demonstrated the knowledge and skills necessary for providing the travel training service suitable for the individual.

 

Peggy Groce

Director, Office of Travel Training

District 75, NYC Department of Education

212-802-1625

mgr...@schools.nyc.gov

 

 

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[Dave Cyra]

You have just heard from the TRUE GURU of mobility training, Peggy Groce. She is the DEAN of mobility training. If you need her credentials e-mail me or better yet give me a call.

David Cyra

Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.

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From: "Richard Ducane" <rdu...@mitw.org>

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:54:12 -0600

To: <mobility-man...@googlegroups.com>

Subject: Travel Trainer

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