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