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