“I Get Around” is an initiative funded by the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities (NCCDD) that aims to improve transportation options for individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (I/DD).

 

This website was made to complement this initiative and create awareness—within the greater Duke and Durham communities—around the difficult realities that people in the I/DD Community face on a regular basis and to show the link between transportation and inclusion of the I/DD Community.

 

This semester, our team undertook a research project, working with the NCCDD (North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities) and the Alliance of Disability Advocates (ADA) to uncover why transportation is an issue for people in the I/DD Community, find solutions that have been proposed on a national scale, identify gaps in research, and suggest possible solutions and areas for future research.

 

With our collection of personal narratives and a myriad of statistics, we aim to communicate the importance of transportation reform for justice, inclusion, and an overall better quality of life for people in the I/DD Community.