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