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