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