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