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