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