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Job Description
Provide therapy to patients with visual impairments to improve their functioning in daily life activities. May train patients in activities such as computer use, communication skills, or home management skills.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1122.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists”.
Also Known As…
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT)
- Teacher of the Visually Impaired
- Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)
- Orientation and Mobility Specialist
- Orientation and Mobility Instructor
- Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Mobility Specialist
- Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS)
- Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Certified Low Vision Therapist
- Vision Therapist
- Vision Specialist
- Rehabilitation Teacher
- Orientation and Mobility Therapist for the Blind
- Low Vision Therapist
- Global Mobility Specialist
- Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Tasks for “Certified Low Vision Therapist”
- Teach clients to travel independently using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and propioceptive information.
- Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.
- Train clients with visual impairments to use mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Design instructional programs to improve communication using devices such as slates and styluses, braillers, keyboards, adaptive handwriting devices, talking book machines, digital books, and optical character readers (OCRs).
- Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.
- Participate in professional development activities such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.
- Teach cane skills including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.
- Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
- Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
- Identify visual impairments related to basic life skills in areas such as self-care, literacy, communication, health management, home management, and meal preparation.
- Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.
- Refer clients to services, such as eye care, health care, rehabilitation, and counseling, to enhance visual and life functioning or when condition exceeds scope of practice.
- Train clients to use adaptive equipment such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
- Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
- Teach independent living skills or techniques such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
Related Technology & Tools
- Lea crowded symbol books
- Illuminated magnifiers
- Braille personal digital assistants
- Long canes
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Finger puppets
- Signature guides
- Color discs
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Stacking rings
- Needle threaders
- Monoculars
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Piano glasses
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Night scopes
- Lea single presentation flash cards
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Stop watches
- Print readers
- Flashlights
- Medical measuring tapes
- Flashlight color filters
- Copyholders
- Large text keyboards
- Plastic eye models
- Slicing guides
- Handheld magnifiers
- Rulers
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Adjustable task lamps
- Stand magnifiers
- Anti-glare visors
- Tactile maps
- Lea numbers near vision cards
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Illuminated cabinets
- Envelope addressing guides
- Lea symbols playing cards
- Braille writers
- Lea grating paddles
- Lea symbols Massachusetts visual acuity test format near vision screeners
- Braille embossers
- Writing guides
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Reading stands
- Check writing guides
- Amsler grids
- Dome magnifiers
- Snellen eye charts
- Eye occluders
- Braille laptop computers
- Near vision acuity charts
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Bar magnifiers
- Pointers
- HOTV charts
- Penlights
- Braille label makers
- Microsoft Excel
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer
- Dolphin Lunar
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks
- American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys
- Freedom Scientific MAGic
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier
- Internet browser software
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Word
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- Microsoft Office