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